Check out who wrote the Constitution of America, the key figures involved, and the history behind its creation. Learn ...

In his July 10, 2025, commentary, “Calling On The Eagle Forum To Add to Its Legacy of Liberty,” RealClearMarkets Editor John ...

Madison’s Hand begins with the question: Why did James Madison take notes at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787? Although Madison was not the only note-taker at the Convention, he was the only one to ...

James Madison, the greatest influence, and only 37 years old, championed a Virginia Plan that eventually dominated the final document. He had prepared for the convention the previous winter by ...

Interestingly, this mega-Congress amendment wasn’t an afterthought. In fact, when James Madison created the list of those first 12 amendments, the 50,000-person limit was the very first amendment.

In a letter written to James Madison from Paris, Thomas Jefferson opined that “no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. . . . Every constitution, then, and every law, na ...

By tracing Madison's involvement with the National Bank to illustrate Madison's views on Constitutional interpretation and his fear of despotic democracy, Scalia determined that Madison was an ...

James Madison, father of the Constitution, warned in 1788 that a second convention “would no doubt contain individuals with insidious views seeking to alter the very foundation and fabric of the ...

In fact, in 1787, when the Constitutional Convention submitted its final product for state ratification, many argued that the proposed Constitution would create a central government capable of ...

At the age of 36, he was perhaps the most essential delegate at the Constitutional Convention (others will argue for George Washington or James Wilson). Madison was the man with the Virginia Plan.

A new constitutional convention could only do us good. We need to find the confidence to undertake a formal national renewal, based on a gathering of a truly representative body of American citizens.