James Madison and Angelo Codevilla

"From Virtuous Republic to Despotic Force via Incompetent Oligarchy"

The late, great Angelo Codevilla, whose memorial Mass was celebrated in Washington, D.C., yesterday, had planned to give the Constitution Day lecture at my college this past September. Health conditions caused him to postpone the lecture to November. In the intervening months our nation lost perhaps the most acute critic of our decaying regime.

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