OUR HERITAGE OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER AND GOVERNMENT James Madison*, a Founding Father of the American Constitution, and one of its brilliant defenders, identified the leading question for its success. Writing in The Federalist, and speaking first of the form of a republic, he asserted: “It is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the Revolution; or with that honorable determination which animates every votary of