@mattyglesias I stopped considering McCain as a candidate after he chose Palin. It wasn't a "maverick" decision and evidence that he wasn't fully in charge of his campaign.
Madison's response is to point out how impractical Jefferson's idea is in practice, but that the spirit of the idea is important.
https://t.co/4hkC8RLYPr
"The earth belongs to the living and not to the dead."
This correspondence between Jefferson and Madison seems like pretty good ammo to disarm Constitutional originalists.
https://t.co/D2jGtwRtWI