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On Wednesday, August 15, 1787, I the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began debating what would become Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution. James Madison (a man whose service before, during, and after the Convention inarguably earned him the moniker "Father of the Constitution") initiated the deliberations on this point by proposing the following language: "Every bill which shall have passed the two houses, shall, before it become a law, be severally presented to the President of the United States, and to the judges of the Supreme Court for the revision of each...."
With this motion, the ever-vigilant Madison intended to protect the ...