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 ...

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...

The Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier today released the results of its national survey, The State of the Constitution: What Americans Know. The results come on the eve of ...

A while back, I went on a quest to figure out and—and live by—the original meaning of America’s Founding document: the Constitution. I bore a musket on the streets of New York. I renounced social ...

Few constitutional principles are more familiar to the average American than the separation of church and state. According to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

As James Madison University prepares for its part in celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States next year, some ...