James Madison! Of course!

The shutdown is the Constitution’s fault

The government is shut down. Two million federal workers are having paychecks delayed, and 800,000 of them might never be repaid at all. Food safety inspections are on hold. Kids are being refused experimental treatments for cancer.

So whose fault is it?

It's developing into an industry in its own right — the writing of articles explaing whose fault the big shutdown of '13 is.