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Historian James Truslow Adams often receives credit for first popularizing the idea of the American dream.
Although James Madison was the youngest member of the Continental Congress, his leadership was a critical factor in the development of American government. Madison proposed the Virginia Plan, he authored some of the Federalist Papers, and he wrote the Bill of Rights. The first national election occurred in 1789. Along with President Washington, voters elected a large number of supporters of the Constitution.