{"id":1526,"date":"2010-12-10T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:05:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:05:52","slug":"1787-james-madison-on-the-founders-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/10\/1787-james-madison-on-the-founders-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"1792 (Compromising for Union) James Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1527\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/files\/2010\/12\/Madison.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1527\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1527\" title=\"Madison\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/files\/2010\/12\/Madison-241x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/files\/2010\/12\/Madison-241x300.png 241w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/files\/2010\/12\/Madison-825x1024.png 825w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/files\/2010\/12\/Madison.png 1495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Wikimedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Describing the stark choice that confronted the 55 men who met in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787, James Madison once wrote about the Constitution that &#8220;Every word \u2026 decides a question between power &amp; liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 &#8220;Charters,&#8221; <em>The National Gazette, <\/em>January 19, 1792; available in <em>The Writings of James Madison, 1790-1802, Volume 6,<\/em> Edited by Gaillard Hunt, available via <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=r24aAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=james%20madison%201792%20every%20word%20power%20and%20liberty&amp;pg=PA83#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Google Books<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Describing the stark choice that confronted the 55 men who met in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787, James Madison once wrote about the Constitution that &#8220;Every word \u2026 decides a question between power &amp; liberty.\u201d Source:\u00a0 &#8220;Charters,&#8221; The National Gazette, January 19, 1792; available in The Writings of James Madison, 1790-1802, Volume 6, Edited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8417,8652],"tags":[8663],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginnings","category-compromising-for-union","tag-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}