the “still small voice” of Madison’s Constitution with “the whirlwind, the earthquake, and the fire” of revolution, war, and civil dissension. It was “the voice that stills the raging of the waves and the tumults of the people—that spoke the words of peace—of harmony—of union.” Those who sought that voice, Adams concluded, should “ ‘to the last syllable of recorded time,’ fix your eyes upon the memory, and listen with your ears to the life of James Madison.”47
