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 ...

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.

The provisions caused no significant debate at the Constitutional Convention, and James Madison described them in The Federalist No. 44 as “fall[ing] within reasonings which are either so ...

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 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.

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 ...

America’s Constitutional Convention occurred in ... a series of 85 newspaper columns written by political leaders James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, under the pen name Publius.

Madison nevertheless sought to defend popular government—the rule of the many—rather than retreat to the rule of the few. American constitutional design can best be understood as an effort to ...

Reflecting this history, James Madison, the fourth president and a leading figure in the Constitutional Convention, wrote in the Federalist Papers that the power of the purse was “the most ...

But though he had missed the Constitutional Convention and subsequent ... The vast majority were in the north, leading Virginians like James Madison to fear loss of influence for the state ...