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hardly an exaggeration, for between shaping the course of a nation and researching the fete of European confederations, Madison won a reputation as a biologist, a seat in the American Philosophical Society, and renown as a translator of Greek and Latin classics.
Selected as one of the Virginia representatives to what became the Constitutional Convention, Madison demonstrated his skills at drafting and negotiation: no delegate had a greater impact on the final result than the diminutive Virginian, now all of 36 years of age. A few months later, he collaborated with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay to produce a newspaper series that became known as “The Federalist Papers.” Written under almost incredible time pressures (at one point Madison alone was writing four essays a week, and later recalled having barely enough time to give each a proofreading), the series still ranks, two centuries later, among the foremost American political works.
Madison completed his 29 essays and immediately discarded the role of theorist for that of practical statesman. He had been elected to the Virginia ratifying convention, and spent his 37th birthday on the road. In the convention, the reticent speaker (the official reporter at points complains that his delivery was too faint to be taken down) took the lead for the Federalists, against such considerable foes as Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee and George Mason. Madison’s explana
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