There is no doubt that the success of the American Revolution was accomplished through the contributions of many great men all of which had inside them the "Spirit of '76." With the vacuum of power created once the British relinquished control of America a new system had to emerge that established law and order and had the support of the citizens of the young nation. The precedents established in the 1770's and the two decades …
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…was found, compromise. With such strong opposition against the ideas in the Constitution that he proposed in 1787 only a man with Madison's vision, oratorical ability, and brilliant mind could have pulled it off, and he did. If it were not for Madison and his influential presence in the most critical moments of the national movement, the United States in which we live would not be the glorious country that we celebrate on a daily basis.