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 ...

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 ...

Happy birthday to James Madison, who is, pound-for-pound, the most distinguished Founding Father. A driving force behind the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, Madison shepherded the young ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Thursday, March 16, Montpelier celebrated the 272nd birthday of James Madison, fourth president of the United States and “Father of the Constitution.” A wreath-laying ceremony took place on the ...

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 ...

You may have heard that the U.S. Supreme Court "invented" the power of judicial review in a case called Marbury v. Madison ...

"The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." — James Madison (1751-1836 ...

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 ...

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