translate English to French: Post-revolution, he was a defender of besieged loyalists. Macdonald had studied James Madison’s Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, which included Hamilton’s Draft of a Constitution for the United States.
A ` ´ ´ John A. Macdonald, un constitutionnaliste aguerri, s’est interesse ´ ´ ´ ` ` aux architectes de la Constitution americaine, particulierement a ´ ´ ´ Alexander Hamilton, qui etait le revolutionnaire americain le plus ´ ` attache aux principes constitutionnels britanniques.