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George Washington has a monument; Jefferson has a memorial; and even James Buchanan has a spot in Washington, D.C., dedicated to his legacy. But there’s no slab of marble in honor of James ...
March 21 , 2001: Examining James Madison and the Constitution A report on Princeton's conference February 22-23. By Jeff Davis GS. Leading James Madison scholars from around the continent, including ...
Happy birthday to James Madison, who is, pound-for-pound, the most distinguished Founding Father. A driving force behind the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, Madison shepherded the ...
James Madison. In a recent post at the Originalism Blog, legal scholar Rob Natelson criticizes me for relying on James Madison's Report of 1800 to support the conclusion that the original meaning ...
James Madison was the last surviving signer of the U.S. Constitution. For months, the dying ex-President remained bed-ridden. On June 28, 1836, Madison found he couldn’t swallow his breakfast.
James Madison earned the nickname the “Father of the Constitution” because he drafted significant pieces of the document. Madison’s most famous work was the Bill of Rights, ratified on ...
ChatGPT has ingested everything James Madison ever wrote. So AJ Jacobs asked it about the state of America today. ... One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning.
To ascertain what a legal text meant at any point in time, one must examine how people talked about it at that time. In the case of the Constitution, we have ample evidence not only of how the ...
Madison in 1803. With no authority ... “Our constitution,” Representative James Jackson of Georgia said in a speech to the First Congress, ... The original meaning of the Constitution, ...
March 21 , 2001: Examining James Madison and the Constitution A report on Princeton's conference February 22-23. By Jeff Davis GS. Leading James Madison scholars from around the continent, including ...