I think it is overreaching a bit to say that there is no question of the greatness of the man who gave the world the atomic bomb, made war on civilian populations, befriended Stalin’s Soviet Union, lied flagrantly to the public, vandalized the Constitution, centralized power, illegally put innocent American citizens into concentration camps, debased the currency ... you get the drift.

I know of no indication that Roosevelt ever studied or even read The Federalist Papers. If he did, they certainly left no impression on him.

Consider one passage from Federalist No. 62, written by Madison: “It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood

Now try to square that with the barrage of New Deal legislation, modeled on Italian fascism, which is always cited among Roosevelt’s great achievements.