Mexico was governed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party for 70 years; India by the founding Congress Party for 30. Then ...

As Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, James Madison inadvertently began a pattern in which this cabinet office position would lead directly to the presidency. This would continue until 1828, with ...

James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams. The Federalist Party, the nation’s first political party, saw only one ...

Federalism was born in 1787, when Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote ... hope of reviving his political career. But Hamilton was doomed, and so was his party.

I have posted this new paper on SSRN. It will be published in the Wisconsin Law Review as part of a symposium held last September. The paper focuses on an 1823 letter written by James Madison, the ...