Former President Joe Biden’s departure from the political scene is not just the end of a historical career or a political era. It may represent the last gasp of the founders’ view of a ...

In The Federalist No. 10, James Madison famously described this ... which will ever subsist between them." When the Constitutional Convention assembled on the morning of September 17, 1787 ...

When James Madison was on his deathbed ... You can see it in Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention, where so much ...

It gives the Senate, in James Madison’s terms ... Midway through the Constitutional Convention, a working draft had assigned the treaty-making power to the Senate, but the Framers, apparently ...

As a delegate to the Constitutional Convention ... This "elective monarch" (in the words of note-taker James Madison), would also serve "during good behavior," meaning indefinitely, without ...

A national conversation on the state of our constitutional order ... In addition to John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, many others penned articles setting forth the federalist ...

Born into a prosperous slave-owning family in Virginia in 1751, James Madison was ... equated with religious liberty. Madison became a delegate to the Virginia Convention, which gathered in ...