It’s been called the “foundational” story of the United States. In the spring and summer of 1787, delegates gathered in Philadelphia and labored from May through September, arguing, wheeling ...

A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...

But we do not know precisely what James Madison said on September 8, 1787, and we shouldn’t imply to the American people that we do—nor that we need to.

James Madison has long been treated as a neutral authority on early American history, a kind of Great Sage of, among other things, the U.S. Constitution. Thus, in a notable book on the ...

James Madison coauthored, with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, the Federalist Papers (1787–88), ... 1787–88), un conjunto de ochenta y cinco ensayos que abogaban por la ratificación de la ...

James Madison’s heart was clearly not in his argument in Federalist #62. Writing in late February 1788, ... 1787—the date we now celebrate (but not widely enough) as Constitution Day.

This led to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Debates surrounding the ratification of the new document followed, ... (2:35) James Madison, portrayed by Bryan Austin, ...

On this day in 1751, James Madison, ... Madison played a critical role in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia, where, at age 36, ...

It was September 1786, and James Madison was despondent. He had traveled to Annapolis, ... Finally, in March of 1787, Washington agreed to attend the meeting.

He described the arguments put forth by James Madison and how delegates tried to ... Professor Jack Rakove talked about some of the issues debated during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, ...