The bitter 1800 presidential election tested the democratic structure of the United States just a few years after the revolution that had created the young nation. The sitting vice president, Thomas ...

James Madison, writing in August of 1823 from his home in Montpelier, Virginia, to which he repaired in what turned out be a ...

James Madison, writing in August of 1823 from his home in Montpelier, Virginia, to which he repaired in what turned out be a futile effort to retire from public life, ...

James Madison, writing in August of 1823 from his home in Montpelier, Virginia, to which he repaired in what turned out be a futile effort to retire from public life, continued to assess the defects ...

The framers of our Constitution expected these divisions. They called them “factions.” James Madison discussed this problem ...

The Supreme Court decided Marbury v, Madison (herein Marbury) in 1803, early in Chief Justice John Marshall’s career on the ...

The first College Football Playoff polls have been revealed, but local teams, such as U. Va and Maryland are just focused on ...

A mericans are headed to the polls today to cast their ballots in a crucial election. People are anxious, hopeful, and scared ...

The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers. In fact, the election of 1800 ...

Donald Trump has often been likened to Aaron Burr, described as ‘one of the most unprincipled men in the United States’. His isolationism, however, owes more to Thomas Jefferson.

The election of 1800 alone featured almost everything that's made President Trump's three presidential contests a wild ride.