The Importance Of Federalism In James Madison's Notes On The Federal Convention

Register to read the introduction… Constitution and in the midst of the crisis of nullification, James Madison reaffirmed the centrality of federalism while writing the preface to what would become his “Notes on the Federal Convention”.
The federal system certainly was important to James Madison and his contemporaries, and it has been important to succeeding generations of Americans who lived their lives and struggled with collective issues and concerns in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Numerous ideas on government emanated from European and American colonial writings and were reformulated during the American founding era. It was in this period, as the thirteen colonies gained independence from Greta Britain, that Americans wrote state constitutions, the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The founding of an American constitutional republic in the eighteenth century with a federal system of democratic government attracts the attention of thoughtful citizens today not only in the United Sates but also those who are attempting to establish constitutional democracy in the other