College football fans, in awe of James Madison, took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to express their amazement at the Dukes' dominance. First, there was the surprise onside kick that bounced off of ...

James Madison, in Federalist Papers No. 10 and No. 51, highlighted the dangers of factions and the need for balanced representation. He argued that a large republic with diverse interests can prevent ...

Nowhere is the complete lack of democracy more apparent than in the system to elect the president of the United States: the ...

In an August op-ed in The Washington Post, President Joe Biden proposed structural alterations to the United States Supreme ...

When I celebrated my birthday on Sept. 17 growing up on our family farm, I didn’t know I shared the day with Uncle Sam. On that day in 1787, our nation’s founders signed America’s highest law of the ...

On this second day of Constitution Week, we look at James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, who was a delegate from ...

It’s time to dig out the Federalist Papers and dust off that old pocket Constitution, because we have work to do. Israeli ...

The founders of the American state and the principal authors of The Federalist Papers, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, shared this view as critics of democracy. Madison and Hamilton echoed ...

U.S. Constitution Week begins Tuesday. As historian Paul Johnson notes in his book, “A History of the American People,” “The (Constitutional) Convention met in Philadelphia again and sat for four ...

The Declaration stated that men are equal and should be allowed to live freely. The Constitution is a guide for how to govern while retaining the concepts of equality and freedom.