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

“Writing the Constitution” by Austin Peay State University history professor, Dr. Kevin Tanner, will tell the story of how ...

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, ...

The bitter 1800 presidential election tested the democratic structure of the United States just a few years after the revolution that had created the young nation. The sitting vice president, Thomas ...

With a very closely divided, near-dysfunctional House, President-elect Trump should not be cannibalizing the Republican caucus for spots in his administration.

Hamilton was very involved in writing the Constitution, though. In fact ... fearing it granted too much power to the central ...

I am rather fond of my native land and her robust and quirky republican traditions, but Jesus did not preach democracy nor ...

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, continued to assess the defects ...

The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home," warned James Madison at the ...

However, with the victory of President-elect Donald Trump, there was melancholy in Manhattan the rest of the week. He has ...

The Federalist Papers are the 85 articles and essays James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay published arguing for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the full replacement of the ...

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