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

The presidential election of 1788, the first under the newly minted Constitution, was unusual, even unique. Here’s how.

The written Constitution was the highest expression of the ‘rule ... more general discretionary powers granted to Congress, a decision, James Madison explained, that reflected the fact that in a ...

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

In this ambitious study, Robertson explains how the US Constitution emerged from an intense battle ... Given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to alter America's destiny, James Madison laid before the ...

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

Encouraged and abetted by free riders who would benefit unfairly from others’ work, well-intentioned lawmakers and judicial ...

(“We are in the wilderness without a single footstep to guide us,” James Madison had written to Jefferson a few ... Jefferson was accused of plotting to destroy the Constitution. Democratic-Republican ...

In 1791, when Congressman James Madison was drafting the first 10 amendments to the Constitution — which would become known as the Bill of Rights — he insisted that the most prominent ...

The unusual stability of our constitutional system means we don’t think of our political orders in those terms — that’s for ...

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