James wilson was the most brilliant legal mind on the committee of detail. He became especially close with a man named robert morris, the founder of america's first bank. Peter Ewald says it matters if the possible writer of the constitution was actually looking out for the financial interests of himself and his boss. We're taught a lot of lofty ideas about the founding fathers, that they were wiseand noble and wanted to perfect democracy. Only now are we starting to talk more widely about how they owned enslaved people,. How they didn't think women should vote.