This talk will be based on ongoing work on Prof. Bilder's new book, Madison's Hand. Madison’s Hand begins with the question: Why did James Madison take notes at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787?

The Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity goes against all of the principles the Constitution's framers pushed for, ...

Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830 Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions Apply Click for more information. ... James Madison, 16 Mar 1751 - 28 Jun 1836 William Branch Giles, ...

A New Constitutional Convention ... Pac-Man or the Hula-Hoop, but the world of today is profoundly different from the world of James Madison, in his wig and buckled shoes, ...

James Madison, the greatest influence, and only 37 years old, championed a Virginia Plan that eventually dominated the final document. He had prepared for the convention the previous winter by ...

Madison’s convention journal was finally published in 1840. By the way, the Constitution can technically be changed—here’s how to amend the Constitution . This state had the most signers of ...

In a letter written to James Madison from Paris, Thomas Jefferson opined that “no society can make a perpetual constitution, ... “The Model Constitutional Convention was an eye opening experience to ...

But if a handful of Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 had voted differently, it might have been reality. ... James Madison and other Founders, who feared mob rule, ...

James Madison tried to place firm limits on the size and scope of the federal government. ... when the Constitutional Convention submitted its final product for state ratification, ...

Some critics have claimed that the Framers of the U.S. Constitution, including James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton, opposed such a method. This is false.

By the time the 13 states came together in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention in 1787, ... The Constitution’s chief author—James Madison—had a problem.