James Madison proposed the radical idea that individuals working in subordinate offices of the government should be “sentinel over the public rights” rather than just obeying their superiors. What convinced him of that? He had been involved in the nascent nation’s first whistleblower scandal. David Reed’s new article in Online Library of Liberty tells the story. https://oll.libertyfund.org/reading-room/2023-11-20-reed-madison-disobedience-public-interest