James Madison
Refuse to Cooperate: The Moderate Middle Road Between Revolution and Unlimited Submission
Ammon Bundy and the other ranchers arrested after taking over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside Burns, Oregon, tried to go toe-to-toe with the federal government using raw force and power. They failed. The feds killed one man, and the rest of the ranchers...
This Week in History: Madison’s Virginia Resolutions Pass in 1798
By December 1798, the United States was in a full-blown constitutional crisis, and James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were stealthily leading the fight to push the federal government back within its prescribed limits. During the summer of that year, Congress passed...
Supreme Court Supremacy vs Jefferson and Madison
Are the States to be unquestioningly submissive on all Supreme Court rulings? Is the “case closed” on a subject once the Court has spoken? Can there be any recourse for the States when a decision appears to be unconstitutional? Thomas Jefferson and James Madison...
Federalist #14: A Limited Federal Government for an Extensive Territory
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the fourteenth in a series of articles giving an introduction to the Federalist Papers, a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States...