As a member of the board of advisers for the St. Louis chapter of the Federalist Society, and a Catholic, I believe a ...

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United ...

Donald J. Kochan is a professor of law and executive director of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. He is also a nonresident scholar at the Center ...

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 ...

James Madison and James Monroe are often remembered ... Monroe took office in 1817 after only token Federalist opposition and was elected in 1820 without any challenger, winning a greater share ...

as James Madison put it in The Federalist No. 47, a significant “partial agency” in the legislative process. Among his most important legislative functions is the duty to recommend measures to ...

In 1788, a year before the United States Constitution became the law of the land, James Madison wrote in the Federalist ...