The destiny of republican government, Madison believed, is staked on the vigilance of the American people to tend "the sacred fire of liberty.”[2] James ... that the Father of the Constitution ...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, James Madison “was not the intellectual father of the Constitution,” Mary Sarah Bilder writes in “Madison’s Hand,” her superb study of the Constitutional ...

Today’s question: James Madison is famous for many things ... is his role as “the Father of the Constitution.” It can be easy to forget that, after the Americans won the Revolutionary ...

James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become mere “parchment barrier,” words on paper ignored by successive ...

Honoring James Madison ... Chief Justice William Rehnquist called him "the Father of U.S. Constitutional Government." Born in 1751, Madison was part of Virginia's landed gentry.

James Madison is remembered today as the “Father of the Constitution” for his central role in framing a new government in the crucial early years of the republic. Yet the title inadvertently ...

March 16th marked the 256th birthday of James Madison ... then feast your brain on a quick bio of 'The Father of our Constitution'. As a child, Madison was smaller then most of the kids his ...