About the Program
Kevin Gutzman, history professor at Western Connecticut State University recounts the legislative career of James Madison. Mr. Gutzman contends that Madison's political life was complicated and marked by his contrarian ideas about the need for the Bill of Rights and the failings of the U.S. Constitution, two documents that he assisted in drafting, and his thoughts on the negative impact of political parties. Kevin Gutzman speaks about President Madison in a talk entitled, "James Madison and the American Ideal of Religious Liberty" at the New York Public Library in New York City.