{"id":8779,"date":"2020-06-17T14:09:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T19:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2020-06-18T12:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:44:43","slug":"madisons-relevance-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8779","title":{"rendered":"MADISON&#8217;S RELEVANCE TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Madison\u2019s political philosophy was greatly influenced by preacher and Princeton president, John Witherspoon.\u00a0 Witherspoon\u2019s influence is apparent in places like the <em>Federalist Papers<\/em> where you see Madison\u2019s realistic view of man\u2019s fallen nature.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDemocracies allow the greatest number of citizens in ruling, Witherspoon notes, but often, as he learned from Aristotle, they degenerate into mob rule, \u2018deceived by demagogues\u2019 and \u2018subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage.&#8217;\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think that is a word for us today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Repost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison\u2019s political philosophy was greatly influenced by preacher and Princeton president, John Witherspoon.\u00a0 Witherspoon\u2019s influence is apparent in places like the Federalist Papers where you see Madison\u2019s realistic view of man\u2019s fallen nature. \u201cDemocracies allow the greatest number of citizens in ruling, Witherspoon notes, but often, as he learned from Aristotle, they degenerate into mob [&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":[31,53,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-politics","category-quotable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779","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=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8781,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions\/8781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}