. >> host: patrick gavi from baltimore, a student of david bers quinn, what founding father is most forgotten in history, but very critically important at that time? >> guest: langston smith >> host: did he go to harvard? >> guest: no, no, founding father in a broad sense, not just who developed it, but got it instituted. langston smith was more responsible more than anyone else on getted it instituted. he ended his political career by voting for radification and brought 11 delegates with him. the country would have looked weird without new york. i think lan smith is somebody to raise our cups to. >> host: who was he? >> guest: a merchant, some say a lawyer, but i don't think so. came from the hudson valley, moved to new york. >> host: what was new york's resistance to the constitution? >> guest: well the opposition was largely in the upper hudson valley. the lower counties, which, of course, are more commercially oriented favored the constitution because again, they thought a strong federal government would be strong for the economy. in the hudson valley, they read the constitution, and well, the reasons people opposed it were not irrational. they said it's the language