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“A recent survey of leading scholars identified James Wilson and Roger Sherman as two of the most important, yet neglected founding fathers,” Dreisbach says. “Long before this survey, Mark had turned his attention to these two founders. Today, Mark is widely regarded as the leading scholar on both Wilson and Sherman.”
James Wilson was born in 1742 in Fifeshire in the Scottish low-lands.4 His father was a yeoman farmer, a strict Calvinist, who des-tined his son for a ministry in the Church of Scotland. Wilson was sent first to the local grammar school (where he learned the rudi-
Before there was a Pepperdine School of Public Policy, fortune brought James Q. Wilson and his wife to Malibu to live. At a crucial time, the person who would become the School's founding Dean ( James R. Wilburn) met Wilson, and introduced him to Pepperdine's then-President, David Davenport. As conversations began around the creation of a ...
James Wilson (1742 - 1798) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Wilson was elected twice to the Continental Congress, where he represented Pennsylvania, and was a major force in drafting the United States Constitution.
Founding Father James Wilson signed the Declaration of Independence, was a leading framer of the Constitution, and served as a Supreme Court Justice. Born in Scotland on September 14, 1742, Wilson was educated at several Scottish universities. He emigrated to America in 1765. He began his career as a Latin tutor, studied law under John ...
As a consequence his name is virtually unknown to the general public. It was in the task of framing a sound government for the republic that Wilson, one of the principal theorists of federalism, made his greatest contribution to the future welfare and stability of his country. Originally published in 1956.
draw from the Founding is an equally-indeed, likely more-important issue in American historical memory. And as I mean to show below, the regnant, Wilson-less narrative of the Founding-along with the lessons drawn from it-is deeply inadequate. First, we must find this Lost Founder. Then we must revive him. PART I: WHO WAS JAMES WILSON?