COVID-19, Madison, and the Consequence of Crisis Legislation

A portrait of the 4th U.S. President James Madison (1809–1817). Courtesy of the National Archives/Newsmakers via Getty Images

Commentary

In Federalist Paper 62, James Madison wrote, “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.”