No wonder President-elect Trump demanded that his own party let him make recess appointments. It would allow his more ...

James Madison is often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.” There is a life-size statue of him in the Madison County Courthouse, as well as a commemorative plaque. Your James Madison ...

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

The framers of the Constitution feared too much centralized ... a Supreme Court and other lower courts. In the words of James Madison: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive ...

The Journal’s editorial board termed Mr. Trump’s recess-appointment scheme not “unconstitutional" but “anti-constitutional." ...

Born: March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia... James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," co-authored The federalist Papers, helped to establish a system of checks and balances for the ...