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In 1789, Wayne Madison and Wayne Monroe ran against one another for Congress - the only real time that two future presidents have contested a congressional couch. But that which was on the line, as author Chris DeRose reveals in Founding Competitors: Madison vs. Monroe, the Monthly bill of Protection under the law, and the Election That Saved a Country, was more than personal ambition. This was a contest that determined the continuing future of the Constitution, the Monthly bill of Rights, the very definition of the United States of America. Friends and politics allies for almost all of their lives, Madison was the Constitution's principal author, Monroe one of its leading opponents. Monroe thought the Constitution provided the government too much electricity and failed to guarantee fundamental rights. Madison assumed that without the Constitution, the United States would not endure. It was the most important congressional contest in American history, more important than all but a few presidential elections, yet it is the one that historians have practically overlooked. In Founding Competitors, DeRose, himself a politics strategist that has fought campaigns in Madison and Monroe's district, relives the plan, retraces the individuals' footsteps, and will be offering the first insightful, extensive history of this high-stakes political fight. DeRose reveals:
- How Madison's election ensured the passage of a Monthly bill of Protection under the law - and exactly how Monroe's election would have ensured its inability
- How Madison originated from behind to earn a narrow success (with a margin of only 336 votes) in a district gerrymandered against him
- How the Monthly bill of Rights emerged as a plan assurance to Virginia's evangelical Christians
- Why Madison's defeat might have triggered a fresh Constitutional Convention - and the split up of the United Says
