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Name: Dr. Crawford-Lackey traces Madison's intellectual development from the schoolroom of Donald Robertso
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Description: Dr. Crawford-Lackey traces Madison's intellectual development from the schoolroom of Donald Robertson, where a 70-mile horseback journey opened a young boy's mind to Locke, Milton, and Montesquieu, th

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Dr. Crawford-Lackey traces Madison's intellectual development from the schoolroom of Donald Robertson, where a 70-mile horseback journey opened a young boy's mind to Locke, Milton, and Montesquieu, through his years under John Witherspoon at Princeton — where he experienced the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party not as distant news, but as live confirmation of everything the Scottish Enlightenment had taught him about human passion and the limits of reason. Madison wasn't born a Founding Father. Listen to Consider the Constitution on Spotify, ApplePodcasts, and BuzzSprout

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