 So James Madison was one of the authors of the Federalist Essays and later on he would draft the amendments that became the Bill of Rights. But in this period, in 1788, he wasn't sure yet about a Bill of Rights. And in this letter to Jefferson, he expresses this uncertainty and he says, the delay of a few years will assuage the jealousies which have been artificially created by designing men and will at the same time point out the faults which