James Madison's Montpelier We The People Spring 2018 WTP_Spring_2018_FINAL_web | Page 10

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WE THE PEOPLE
YEARS
In Madison’s Life
Young James Madison wasn’t exactly sociable when
his Taylor cousins spent a week at Montpelier in
March 1786. Francis Taylor wrote in his diary
that “Col Madison Jr while we were here, came to
breakfast of which he eat sparingly, and then would
go to his room till a little before dinner.” Madison,
however, had good reason to be preoccupied.
He was about to change the world.
Background: An etching of a young James Madison from
The Montpelier Foundation overlaying the Constitution.
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