James Madison was one of our nation’s most important Founding Fathers and played a critical role in shaping the United States ...

Discover who is called the Father of the U.S. Constitution. Learn about his key contributions, including the Federalist Papers, the Bill of Rights, and his theory of checks and balances.

Howard Schweber explains James Madison's political theory of the U.S. Constitution. Howard Schweber, professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks with ...

As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The accumulation of ...