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

The clause was neither the subject of much debate during the Constitutional Convention nor was it a major topic of discussion during the ratification debates. James Madison, in his wrap-up of ...

It would also be an exhaustive — and exhausting — undertaking to find a new system that would appease enough lawmakers, as ...

Oct. 22, 2024 The answer lies in the historical record of the debates at the Constitutional Convention ... more informed and educated minds. James Madison stepped forward to coin the term ...

When the Constitutional ... at the Convention, no one suggested that another fraction would be more appropriate. Indeed, the rule was included in a June 11 motion, made by James Wilson of ...

As a delegate to the Constitutional Convention ... This "elective monarch" (in the words of note-taker James Madison), would also serve "during good behavior," meaning indefinitely, without ...

It seems that every four years, we are told that, “This election is the most important election ever.” We have been ...

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

A mericans are headed to the polls today to cast their ballots in a crucial election. People are anxious, hopeful, and scared ...

Actually, the Electoral College was about both and more. Examining the perspective of John Dickinson, a delegate from Delaware and an architect of the Electoral College who neither distrusted the ...

One of the chief justifications for the Electoral College, advanced by its advocates, is that small, lightly populated states require protection for interests that would be overwhelmed by large ...

The system by which a group of electors decides the outcome of the election — rather than the popular vote — was born out of the 1787 Constitutional ... president James Madison had observed.