*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1404 ***| www.gutenberg.org
Session 2 In this session the following texts will be discussed: Jefferson to William Stephen Smith (11/13/1787); Jefferson to James Madison (12/20/1787); Jefferson to Alexander Donald (2/7/1788) (not available online) Hamilton, The Federalist, Nos. 1, 6, 9, 70-72, 78, 84. Hamilton's Speech in the Constitutional Convention (Madison's vesion) (6/18/1787) Hamilton, Conjectures on the Convention (September 1787) Hamilton, Contintentalist Nos. 1 & 4| oll.libertyfund.org
From Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 13 November 1787| founders.archives.gov
This is the second post in a series of posts on Russell Vought’s programmatic (2022) essay “Renewing American Purpose: Statesmanship in a post-Constitutional moment,” The American Mind. (The first was here yesterday.) Yesterday, I focused on Vought’s diagnosis of the failures of Trump 1, and I explored some of the intellectual roots of the framework he proposes to take up in — as one may surmise from what is unfolding already — in Trump 2.| digressionsimpressions.substack.com