In Federalist 47, James Madison warned: “The accumulation of all powers … in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many ... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” ...

But it turns out he was wrong — James Madison is only of secondary importance. “Whiteness,” subsequent generations have discovered, was our true founding father and the real framer of the ...

America’s Founding Fathers, I submit ... In a 1790 House debate on naturalization, James Madison opined: “It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible ...

Born: March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia... James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," co-authored The federalist Papers, helped to establish a system of checks and balances for the ...

When the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia in 1787 ... In 1787, he urged his friend and colleague James Madison to amend the Constitution to include a written guarantee of religious liberty.

Questions of faith and governance often stir division, but Ledbetter’s gesture reminds us of the enduring values that have ...