{"id":6453,"date":"2016-09-08T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2016-09-07T13:11:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:11:31","slug":"where-are-witherspoon-and-madison-when-we-need-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6453","title":{"rendered":"WHERE ARE WITHERSPOON AND MADISON WHEN WE NEED THEM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Among other things, I am currently reading <em>The Political Philosophy of James Madison<\/em>.\u00a0 It is a terrific and terribly important read.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Political-Philosophy-Madison-American-Founders\/dp\/0801871069\">http:\/\/https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Political-Philosophy-Madison-American-Founders\/dp\/0801871069<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Madison&#8217;s political philosophy was greatly influenced by preacher and Princeton president, John Witherspoon.\u00a0 Witherspoon&#8217;s influence is apparent in places like the <em>Federalist Papers<\/em> where you see Madison&#8217;s realistic view of man&#8217;s fallen nature.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Democracies allow the greatest number of citizens in ruling, Witherspoon notes, but often, as he learned from Aristotle, they degenerate into mob rule, &#8216;deceived by demagogues&#8217; and &#8216;subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage.'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think that is a word for us today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Political-Philosophy-Madison-American-Founders\/dp\/0801871069\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Political-Philosophy-Madison-American-Founders\/dp\/0801871069<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among other things, I am currently reading The Political Philosophy of James Madison.\u00a0 It is a terrific and terribly important read.\u00a0 http:\/\/https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Political-Philosophy-Madison-American-Founders\/dp\/0801871069 Madison&#8217;s political philosophy was greatly influenced by preacher and Princeton president, John Witherspoon.\u00a0 Witherspoon&#8217;s influence is apparent in places like the Federalist Papers where you see Madison&#8217;s realistic view of man&#8217;s fallen nature. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6455,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions\/6455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}