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, ...

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 ...

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, in his second term as president, would veto a congressional bill on precisely that ground. The sixth purpose of the Constitution is to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ...

James Madison, the Constitution’s principal drafter, derided democracies as “spectacles of turbulence and contention.” The Founders believed that our passions are not necessarily reliable ...

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 ...

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

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

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

[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 ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Floridians voted Tuesday to enshrine the right to fish and hunt in the State Constitution. The amendment ...

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 ...