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3 Apr 2017, 6:34 pm by David Kopel
During Madison’s presidency (1809-17), Secretary of War James Monroe (who would succeed Madison as president), successfully promoted legislation to foster the development of firearms technology. [read post]
28 Sep 2009, 7:54 am
On September 3, around 9:30pm, Patrolman James Cavezza arrested 18-year-old Samantha R. [read post]
4 Jul 2022, 6:09 am by Dan Farber
  Such early American figures as John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison were in different ways adherents to the Enlightenment. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 11:12 am by Buce
Chez Buce took in a screening last night of James Franco's As I Lay Dying last. [read post]
7 Jan 2018, 4:45 am
Caro's "Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III" (pp. 7-8):“The use of the Senate,” [James] Madison said, “is to consist in its proceeding with more coolness, with more system, and with more wisdom, than the popular branch. [read post]
14 Oct 2021, 6:53 am
” The BuzzFeed article is puzzling, but I quickly turned up the New York Post article which has lots of pictures of Reid — dressed in various costumes — and a list of roles played in the show: Aaron Burr, George Washington, Hercules Mulligan/James Madison and Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson.What was the "misgendering"? [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 5:28 am
" "Men like Madison and Jefferson were moved by the ideals of Christianity, and wanted the United States to reflect those values as a Christian nation," continued Mortensen, referring to the "Father of the Constitution," James Madison, considered by many historians to be an atheist, and Thomas Jefferson, an Enlightenment-era thinker who rejected the divinity of Christ and was in France at the time the document was written. [read post]
20 Aug 2011, 12:41 pm
Here's a famous American document, James Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessment: If "all men are by nature equally free and independent," [Virginia Declaration of Rights, art. 1] all men are to be considered as entering into Society on equal conditions; as relinquishing no more, and therefore retaining no less, one than another, of their natural rights. [read post]
10 Jan 2024, 5:42 pm by Mark Graber
  There are numerous instances, including a congressional report, where political actors and journals make no distinction, sometimes self-consciously, between “office(r),” “office(r) of,” and “office(r) under. [read post]
17 Sep 2013, 10:04 am by Terry Hart
Webster also lobbied James Madison personally to pass a copyright act, including through a letter to the Virginiana legislator in 1784. [read post]
18 Apr 2008, 4:06 pm
Superior Court Judge William Mallen; James Madison; William Brennan; and, needless to say, Earl Warren. [read post]
9 Mar 2021, 1:07 pm by davidferriero
While James Madison’s March 16 birthday and his work as the father of the Constitution inspired the timing of Sunshine Week, it was his fellow Founding Fathers who first publicly noted the importance of records to our democracy. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 6:12 am
McLeod, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 Tags: Accountability, Boards of Directors, Incorporations, Shareholder activism, Shareholder primacy, Staggered boards, Stakeholders, State law A Proposed Alternative to Corporate Governance and the Theory of Shareholder Primacy Posted by John R. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 1:59 am
  John Adams, James Madison and John Quincy Adams made it to their 80s, and died of "heart failure. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 11:00 pm
Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803), Chief Justice John Marshall established the United States Supreme Court's power of judicial review. [read post]