He wasn’t even in the country at the time. He was living in France as the US Ambassador. Indeed he was at least equivocal about key elements of the document, despite the fact that much of it was the work of his friend and protege James Madison,

In its awful immunity ruling on Monday benefiting Donald Trump, the court seems so worried about future threats to democracy that could come from the possibility of bogus future criminal prosecutions of former presidents that it is willing to let a legitimate election subversion prosecution over a current threat against democracy go by the wayside.