James Madison University

convention, no state dared to miss it. Madison arrived in Philadelphia 3 weeks before the intended start date, intending to spend the preluding weeks preparing for the Convention. This meant consulting with fellow southern delegates, creating and developing policies he wanted passes, and reading literature regarding other budding democracies and their own constitutions. Although his closest friend and ally, Thomas Jefferson, was across the ocean in France, Madison was ready to guide the…

Alongside with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay they published the “Federalist Papers.” James Madison was also known as the “Father of the Constitution.” Originally he proposed 19 amendments, 10 of them, which got approved by the majority of states forming the Bill of Rights. Ensuring citizens, the rights to protect our freedom. At last and foremost, James Madison was our fourth president of the United States, serving two terms from 1809 through 1817. Making him as well the…

Without Shays’ Rebellion, our nation's leaders would not have realized the problems The Articles of Confederation caused for the people. The leaders that realized this problem were George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. They fixed this problem by starting the drafting of The Constitution at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Shay’s Rebellion was an important conflict caused by the government’s weak economic policy and led to the actual rebellion which then resulted in the…

In the stirring speech “In Beyond Vietnam- a Time to Break Silence” Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. makes a compelling and tumultuous argument about the atrocities rampant across the Pacific Ocean; in spite of being criticized by many civil right leaders who thought it hurt their cause. King was ultimately able to advance the cause for social equality by drawing connections and correlations between the war in Vietnam and begging the question in regards to the war raging on the home front:…

The election of 1800 was a bitter one: there was constant slandering from both the federalist and the democratic-republican sides, but ultimately Jefferson won. In Thomas Jefferson: Political Compromiser, Morton Borden analyzes Jefferson’s presidency and ideals to question how he achieved so much success: did Jefferson simply adapt to gain support? During his presidency, Jefferson often stuck to his party roots. However, Jefferson also enacted very impartial, federalist policies that underscored…

capturing of the American seamen from the Royal Navy, and America wanted to expand their territory. In late 1811, the “Battle of Tippecanoe” breaks out, leading to the Indians seeking help from the British against the American army. On June 18, 1812, James Madison signed the agreement to go to war with the British; this was known as the war of 1812. The Federalist side of America was strongly against war but ended up getting beat out on the…

Jefferson and Madison stayed very strong in their Jeffersonian Republican, or Democratic-Republican, views in most cases, and only slightly veered to Federalist views during times when they were absolutely necessary. Jefferson kept his interpretation of the constitution very firmly when it came to the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States, and Madison kept a strong Jeffersonian Republican view when it came to federal government and state government rights. The only time that…

Among many thing that concerned James Madison (1751- 1836) and other protagonists of our Constitution was the control of what they called factions. Madison defined a 'faction' as "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." Madison understood that we would always have factions and…

If you put a strong man on one end of the rope and an equally strong man at the other and tell them to pull, who is going to win? This is how Washington saw the political factions that were developing in the states. Federalist; those for the new government vs. Anti Federalist; those who opposed the creation of a stronger u.s government. These were the forces that Washing saw as dangerous to the nation. Although he tried to prevent these factions, Washington and the other leaders of our country…

ideologically to the monarchy of England than the for the people republican ideals. Instead of having a president elected by direct popular vote, the Federalists believed that a leader should be chosen by a few elite electors. The compromise reached with James Madison, who was in favor of direct democracy, was the electoral college system still in place today. John Adams did not have as much faith in the Constitution as his fellow founding fathers did, believing only “a moral and upright people…