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31 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Thomas Jefferson was the chief author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which James Madison guided through the state legislature. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 11:58 am
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.Place: Mumford Room, located on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 12:04 pm by June Casey
Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University   More About The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President “Noah Feldman brings a scholarly rigor and a gift for narrative to this impressive account of the sprawling—and often perplexing—life of James Madison. [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 2:49 am by NCC Staff
Jefferson sent James Monroe in 1803 to France to join Robert R. [read post]
19 Oct 2017, 5:08 am by Robert Natelson
Notes taken by James Madison and others, as well as Dickinson’s own notes (not recovered until 1983), reveal a significant impact on the framers’ deliberations. [read post]
18 Oct 2017, 6:52 am by Liah Caravalho
The event will take place in the Mumford Room, located on the sixth floor of the James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C. [read post]
27 Sep 2017, 5:13 pm
Today, on the southern shore of Lake Mendota, not far from the monument that got graffiti swastikas recently, I encountered a kiosk with a bunch of stapled-on signs that caught my attention. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 7:45 am by Ilya Somin
”  James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and other leading Founding Fathers argued that the Alien Friends Act was unconstitutional because the federal government lacked any general power to regulate immigration. [read post]
18 Sep 2017, 10:20 am by Christopher Freiman
James Madison famously wrote, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 10:41 am by NCC Staff
Steven Calabresi is the Clayton J. and Henry R. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 5:09 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm,” James Madison wrote in one of the Federalist Papers during the debates over the ratification of the Constitution. [read post]
24 Aug 2017, 12:26 pm by Ilya Somin
Madison decision) is intrinsically an anti-democratic power…. [read post]
17 Aug 2017, 12:38 pm
He said he is a descendant of Union Army General James Shields, who is known for challenging Abraham Lincoln to a duel, prior to his presidency. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 5:59 am by Terry Hart
On August 18, 1787, James Madison proposed to the Constitutional Convention what would become Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the Constitution, granting Congress the authority to make copyright (and patent) laws. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 11:00 am by Jane Chong
According to Philip Bobbitt, in bribery terms, Trump "came perilously close to violating the constitution" during his private January dinner with then-FBI director James Comey when he asked if Comey wanted to keep his job and then “raised the subject of Comey terminating the Russia investigation. [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 9:07 am by Ilya Somin
It is ironic that MacLean falsely accuses of James Buchanan and other libertarians of opposing Brown v. [read post]
21 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
When the first draft of the Constitution was released and on its way to Congress, James Madison feared that there would not be enough virtuous men to fill the seats of Congress. [read post]