FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We’re now going to look at the Father of the Constitution – James Madison. Prior to becoming the fourth president - Madison first became politically active once the ...

Contemporary scholars note that the American Constitution was the first complete written national constitution. Almost all ...

Sept. 17, no less than on the Fourth of July, the public should have celebrated what founder James Madison described to his friend Thomas Jefferson as nothing “less than a miracle.” Teachers ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - This Constitution Day, students learned about James Madison’s influence on American constitutional design. The event titled, “A More Perfect Union?: Constitution Day ...

Donald J. Kochan is a professor of law and executive director of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. He is also a nonresident scholar at the Center for ...

However, James Madison's notes on the debates are a valuable source for our founding origins as a nation. And, in the Federalist Papers, Madison -- urging the new Americans to vote to ratify the ...

For years to come, constitutional scholars and historians will note the irony of the Supreme Court’s defiance of its own intellectual platform in rendering a decision in Trump v. United States, on the ...

In his 1836 eulogy of James Madison, John Quincy Adams called the late president the “Father of the Constitution.” It was not the first time Madison was called that; Jared Ingersoll toasted the former ...

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” Sadly, the answer ...