JAMES MADISON: COMMANDER IN CHIEF (627 pp ... s massive biography begins as Madison is leading the U.S. into the War of 1812. In the five previous volumes, Brant argued energetically and ...

James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution ... The public viewed the results of the War of 1812 so favorably that the Federalist Party faithful who had opposed the war witnessed their ...

Major Acts: British seizure of American seamen pushed James Madison to ask Congress for a declaration of war in June 1812. The United States entered the conflict without a strong military.

The word secession is not in the Constitution, but the Civil War Era answered the question of whether states may secede from ...

On June 18, 1812, American President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Britain. American and British officers were having dinner together at Fort George when news of the ...