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Subject Area: Political Theory
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Topic: The American Revolution and Constitution

CCCXCIV.: James Madison to William Cogswell. 1 - Max Farrand, The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 3 [1911]

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The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911). Vol. 3.

Part of: The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 3 vols.

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CCCXCIV.

James Madison to William Cogswell.1

You give me a credit to which I have no claim, in calling me “The writer of the Constitution of the U. S.” This was not like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.

[1 ]Library of Congress, Madison Papers, Draft.