Great Hearts National Symposium for Classical Education

JMC will be exhibiting at the conference and co-hosting the following session on Wednesday February 25 at 2:00 pm:

Consensus and Friction in Madison and Jefferson’s “Great Collaboration”

James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were fast friends and productive political collaborators from their first meeting in 1776 to Jefferson’s death in 1826. Both were enthusiastic supporters of religious liberty, democratic republicanism, and constitutionalism. Nevertheless, their political beliefs were most often synergetic but never synonymous and were the source of occasional sparks of friction and moments of disagreement, especially in the years surrounding the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Join professor Alan Gibson as he explores the contours and (occasional) conflicts in Madison and Jefferson’s lifelong “great collaboration.”