our next speaker [applause] our next speaker is james pearson. he is the senior fellow. he is the author of many great books including shattered consensus. he also has an essay in the january [inaudible] >> i appreciate it. thank you. thank you roger for assembling this. my essay in this volume is about james madison. the constitution does not engrave anyone's policy preferences in the chimes of process and the series of rights, but none of the policy preferences thapreference is ths hold today so i suggest in this essay that all of this is badly overblown in the constitution is going to survive without any difficulty. it's under greater threat and from disintegration and in some of his last letters. was simila it was similar to a serpent in regards to this but obviously he was thinking the slavery issue. i don't believe they envisioned a nation state. if you think about federalist number ten in the extended republic was talking about a policy in which the country is divided. if they can't agree on something or reach a consensus then that will be okay if. but democracy i

our next speaker is james pearson. and the simon foundation, he is the author of many great books including shattered consensus, the rise and decline of the postwar political order and an is a in the new criterion. >> appreciate it, thank you, roger, for assembling this. my essay in this volume is by james madison and it addresses the claim made by critics, donald trump is a threat to the constitution. i liked very much to hear many critics now praising the separation of powers and checks and balances in the u.s. constitution because typically they have not liked those aspects of the constitution. basically the theme of this paper is there is little chance donald trump is going to run through the u.s. constitution with various checks and balances. the constitution was drafted by james madison to deal expressly with a situation like donald trump and to tie him down in a quagmire of conflicting political pressures from the congress to the various branches of government, and even more of a problem today because the govern

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