Bill Kauffman spoke Sept. 9 at the Holland Land Office Museum dinner and Patrick Weissend recorded it as part of HOLM's ongoing podcast series.
You can listen to it here.
Bill's new book is Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin.
Luther was an anti-Federalists, a misnomer used to describe a group of people who opposed ratification of the Constitution because it would, they believed (and accurately predicted) that it would lead to a concentration of power in the national government at the expense of communities and states. The opposition of the anti-Federalist did help lead to the drafting of the Bill of Rights.
In the podcast, Bill covers Luther Martin's biography and his opposition to the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.
