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30 Mar 2012, 5:27 pm
The court in Marbury held that it could not force James Madison, Secretary of State under President Thomas Jefferson, to deliver commissions signed by John Adams just before leaving office. [read post]
11 May 2007, 6:14 am
"Our scope is very large, over a million books currently," says Adam Smith, who manages Google Book Search. [read post]
11 Dec 2021, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Both Franklin and Adams, who were on the committee with Jefferson in Philadelphia, later prepared a Bills of Rights for their respective states. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 1:34 pm by Jon Levitan
The same is true for George Washington, Madison, Hamilton, John Adams and many other Founding Fathers. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 2:30 am by NCC Staff
Madison In the landmark 1803 case Marbury v. [read post]
25 Oct 2018, 6:00 am by John Mikhail
”  Likewise, when the Virginia convention ratified the Constitution, it did so with the stipulation—prepared by a committee that included James Madison, Edmund Randolph, and John Marshall—that “no right of any denomination can be canceled, abridged, restrained, or modified by the Congress . . . by the President or any Department or Officer of the United States except in those instances in which power is given by the Constitution for those purposes. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 4:00 am by Eric Segall
MADISON: THE POLITICAL TURNS PERSONAL AND THE PERSONAL TURNS  POLITICALMost academics view much of Marbury v. [read post]
4 May 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Whatever may have been his later views, the Madison of 1787 could easily join with Hamilton in a basic contempt for the actualities of state governance. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 11:01 am by Andrew Kent
Major figures whose views about this issue are essentially beyond dispute include George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, James Wilson, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, William Paterson, James Monroe, Pierce Butler, James Iredell, Samuel Chase, Henry Knox, and Charles Pinckney. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 9:00 am by Matthew Waxman
(John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, p. 302). [read post]
18 Sep 2017, 2:55 am by NCC Staff
Answer: The Bill of Rights was proposed by James Madison and was ratified on December 15, 1791. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 12:00 am by Sex Offender Issues
STATE Petitioner-appellant, Roger Rutan, appeals pro se from the Madison County Court of Common Pleas decision overruling his petition challenging his sex offender reclassification. [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 4:32 am by Samarth Desai
The acts outraged Thomas Jefferson, Adams’s vice president and political rival. [read post]
18 May 2022, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On the day John Adams was inaugurated as the second president, Adams later wrote that Washington looked “as serene and unclouded as the day. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 3:39 pm by Guest Author
James Madison, a staunch proponent of the Constitution as proposed and ratified, nevertheless lent some support to its amendment given the fact that “all power is subject to abuse.[5] In other words, so great was Madison’s fear of concentrations of power that he was willing to consider arguably premature constitutional amendments so long as they led to greater security against government abuse of power.[6] State officials, also highly skeptical of unchecked or… [read post]
6 Oct 2013, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
  In 1796, Adams won and Jefferson came in second, so under the rules set forth in Article II of the Constitution, Adams became President and Jefferson became Vice President. [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 6:00 am by Jennifer González
In 1791, sensing the likely failure of ratification without anti-federalist votes, James Madison drafted a list of rights that would not be encroached upon by the federal government. [read post]