(“We are in the wilderness without a single footstep to guide us,” James Madison had written to Jefferson a few ... Democratic-Republican journalists were jailed under the Federalist-passed Sedition ...

In last month’s opinion piece, I invited readers to send us their questions regarding Madison County. Stephen Cuppett, of Glen Carbon, wrote to ask what he called a fundamental question. “What is the ...

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, 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 ...