Opinion of US Presidents Series: George Washington through James Monroe

[Blue3]

I voted for them as Presidents... only looking at their presidencies.


HP =
Adams (Alien & Sedition Acts, overall elitist tone of his presidency)
Madison (his near-genocidal Indian removal policy, and he so lucked out in the disastrous war of 1812)

FF =
Washington
Jefferson
Monroe
(they should have done more for "internal improvements" aka infrastructure, and of course there's slavery but that's a burden shared by just about all before 1860)


It's funny because I personally like Adams and Madison the most.

[Blue3]

The War of 1812 was a mistake, but that does not change the contributions Madison made to the Constitution.  I like that his thinking combined the better parts of Hamilton and Jefferson--he was not a staunch anti-democrat like the former, but he had a more practical mind than the latter.

But he didn't help write the Constitution in his role as President. That was many years later.