Good Day citizens.

Citizens. This week... Jerry Mandering.

It was really an interesting conversation.

I got a little confused a few times but you seem to straighten me out.

Let me read something to you. We didn't have time for this in the show but it's so good.

It's from a book called The Age of Federalism by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKittrich.

It's what he says about Elbridge Gary.

Jerry-Mandering comes from the life and achievement of Elbridge Gary of Massachusetts.

Let me just read this to you, David, it's so cool.

They say on page 556, why should it be that Elbridge Gary's public career,

which already included service as a signer of the Declaration of Independence

and the Articles of Confederation,

a member of the Continental Congress,

delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and member of the Continental Congress, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and

member of the House of Representatives, and would in time include two terms as Governor

of Massachusetts and at the end of his life the Vice Presidency of the United States, why should so regularly

his career misfire that every other step should somehow be in the wrong direction that

in the course of his life he would exhaust the patients of colleagues and

lose most of his friends about the only ones who remained with him throughout his

life were John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. He has challenged the wits this problem of more than one able

historian.

The key to all Gary's quirk's dotiness and apparent inconsistencies according to

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