James Madison is at center, seated, to the right of Ben Franklin. WikiCommons The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia was winding down, the draft of the United States’ supreme law almost ...

Some historians believe that James Madison could never have been ... At age 36, he had played a major role in the constitutional convention of 1787, which drafted the country’s founding document.

Gans: This Court has revealed conservative originalism to be a hollow shell Nor do the records of the Constitutional Convention reveal ... Years later, James Madison maintained that the Philadelph ...

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was preceded ... and future president James Madison. It was discussion of this problem that motivated these and other leaders to meet in 1787.

The manner of electing the President was one of the most contentious issues at the Constitutional Convention held in ... brings to elections. James Madison warned that: [In a direct democracy ...

But at no point did they seek to endow the President with prerogatives that would make him an 'elective King,'" the brief said, citing James Madison's "Notes on the Constitutional Convention." ...

George Washington, the first, was president at the time of the signing, while James Madison ... “The journal that he [Madison] kept during the Constitutional Convention was kept secret until ...

The system by which a group of electors decides the outcome of the election — rather than the popular vote — was born out of the 1787 Constitutional ... president James Madison had observed.