Introduction

Allow me to introduce myself.  My Name is James Madison.  Some of you may have heard or read about me in some distant American history course from bygone years.  I am sometimes referred to as the "Father of the Constitution".  Some years after the Convention and ratification when I first heard that reference, I must confess that, though flattered by the moniker, I was a bit uncomfortable with the implication. It took many heads and many hands to craft the law of the land.  Besides, if I am the Father of the Constitution, who, pray tell, is the "Mother"?  I should like to meet her sometime. 
Indeed, I was never renowned for my humor.   Forgive me.  There was one prominent socialite in Philadelphia when I was member of the first U S Congress who declared to all that I was the most "unsociable creature in existence" she had ever met.  Well, there you have it.  Guilty as charged.  Fortunately, her declaration is not that for which I am remembered.