![]() ![]() Jefferson’s home at Monticello has been restored to Jeffersonian perfection and become a shrine visited by thousands of people every year. Jefferson’s ringing statements on behalf of freedom and democracy are inscribed everywhere, but very few of Madison’s stirring words are widely known or revered. Jefferson has a huge temple erected in his honor in the nation’s capital, but until 1980, with the naming of a new Library of Congress building after him, Madison had no such memorial. He was only about five foot five or five foot six, compared with Jefferson’s six foot two or three, and somehow that difference in height has carried over into the different degrees of popular esteem in which the country has held these founders. ![]() He seems smaller than his Virginia colleague in every way. ![]() Most people certainly see Madison as standing in Jefferson’s shadow. ![]()
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