Consider the Constitution

← Consider the Constitution29 Jul · 37 min

The Man Behind "We the People": Recovering James Wilson

The Man Behind "We the People": Recovering James Wilson29 Jul37 min

The three most famous words in American government — We the People — were written by a founder most Americans have never heard of. Host Dr. Katie Crawford-Lackey sits down with author and journalist Jesse Wegman to recover the story of James Wilson: a Scottish immigrant who arrived in 1765, signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, drafted the Constitution's opening words, and sat on the first Supreme Court — then vanished almost entirely from national memory. Wegman's...