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

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 ...

During his campaigning days, United States President elect Donald Trump promised to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to ...

If you have walked in downtown Jefferson City, you may have stopped to read a plaque on the northeast corner of Madison and ...

Sufficient conservative Democratic electors available to deny labor Socialist nominee. Would you consider Byrd President, Goldwater Vice President, or wire any acceptable substitute. All replies ...

As the writer, Patrick Fowler, pointed out, Gen. Edmund P. Gaines was a military hero of the War of 1812 who later was ...

During this time, Jefferson expects political upheaval in Great Britain, welcomes the imminent presidential transition from James Madison to James ... overjoyed by American victories late in the War ...

At the Virginia ratifying convention, James Monroe and George Mason worried ... Of course, during the War of 1812, the government fled from Washington. Congress has followed the text of the ...

Neither was war inevitable in 1812; it almost came in 1794 ... the cost and the pain.’ James Madison had an alternative in June 1812; he chose not to take it, and almost led his country to ...

In contrast, the Democratic-Republicans, helmed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison ... as the Federalists dissolved after the War of 1812. A pivotal moment in 1824 saw a contested election ...