James Madison foresaw a “deep state.” The solution must include federalism: a division of powers that limits the national ...

“Father of the Constitution” James Madison rose to address the delegates: “If it be essential to the preservation of liberty that the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers be ...

Madison in Federalist No. 62 recognized that the creation of voluminous laws and regulations “poisons the blessing of liberty ...

As Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, James Madison inadvertently began a pattern in which this cabinet office position would lead directly to the presidency. This would continue until 1828, with ...

Federalism was born in 1787, when Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote 85 essays collectively known as the Federalist papers. These eloquent political documents encouraged ...

In the words of James Madison: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed ...