Of political parties, Thomas Jefferson said, “If I could not go to heaven but with a (political) party, I would not go there at all.” James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, “You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” America’s Founding Fathers argued over those issues and more.
Dr. Mark Meirowitz, professor at SUNY Maritime College, specializes in American history, foreign policy, and constitutional law, He ponders what the founders would teach us in today’s era of political polarization.
