James Madison, writing in August of 1823 from his home in Montpelier, Virginia, to which he repaired in what turned out be a ...

James Madison is often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.” There is a life-size statue of him in the Madison County Courthouse, as well as a commemorative plaque. Your James Madison ...

A second fundamental element of the Constitution is the concept of checks and balances. As James Madison famously wrote in The Federalist No. 51, In framing a government which is to be ...

The framers of the Constitution feared too much centralized ... a Supreme Court and other lower courts. In the words of James Madison: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive ...

James Madison has long been treated as a neutral authority on early American history, a kind of Great Sage of, among other things, the U.S. Constitution. Thus, in a notable book on the ratificatio ...

James Madison. Madison was instrumental in shaping the early American government. He was so involved in the creation and ...

Born: March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia... James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," co-authored The federalist Papers, helped to establish a system of checks and balances for the ...

As John Adams saw the political world, there were essentially three main forms of government—monarchy, aristocracy, and ...

The president-elect wants the Senate to abdicate its role in reviewing presidential appointments. It shouldn’t give in.

[The President] shall from time to time...recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.... Despite the Article I provision that “All legislative ...

The Supreme Court decided Marbury v, Madison (herein Marbury) in 1803, early in Chief Justice John Marshall’s career on the ...

James Madison, writing in August of 1823 from his home in Montpelier, Virginia, to which he repaired in what turned out be a futile effort to retire from public life, ...