Excerpt from History of the Life and Times of James Madison, Vol. 1
The following work has been undertaken from no ambition of authorship, to which the active and diversified pursuits of the writer"s life present every possible discouragement. It was felt, however, that some account of the character, opinions, and actions of the man who contributed more largely and effectively, though unobtrusively, to the formation of the institutions under which we live than any of his contemporaries, and who was the elective head of the Government at a period of external difficulties and trials which gave the United States definitively a rank among nations, was a desideratum in the history of the country.
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