to stand for president against john adams in 1776. not offended some arm twisting and obliged jefferson to reenter politics. he had done this once before in 1782, when he convinced jefferson to enter the diplomatic corps and join franklin and adams in europe. without madison s earlier intercession, jefferson at that point, a disgruntled ex-governor and a recent widower, what is might ve been holed up in his private library and remade the virginia provincial. madison was ambitious as he was a man of print the bull. by 1791, he found his friend president washington turning away from his view of balanced government. checks and balances. and instead, turning towards hamilton view of cultivating and this was madison s view of cultivating money men and making them a privileged class with special access to the executive. madison was no longer satisfied just to be the leader of a growing congressional opposition. he understood the power of the press. there was at this point only