James Madison

James Madison POTUS In Poetry Collection # 4 By Faye Collum Fairley James Madison was the oldest of children twelve. He was a small boy, and not in good health. He was called “Jemmy” in the small neighborhood Only nine of these children survived childhood. Jemmy’s father planted tobacco, acquiring…

By Amitai Etzioni, University Professor and Professor of International Relations at George Washington University Communitarianism is surely one of the smallest and least-known branches of social philosophy, and liberal communitarianism is even less recognized within academia. Both are rarely mentioned in public discourse. However, communitarian ideas are found in many…

As a result of coming across @ConstitutionDAO and going down the Constitution rabbit-hole, I found myself reading Federalist Paper 39 for the first time, written by James Madison, probably The Founding’s greatest pure political theorist & architect in my opinion. I think FP 39 is particularly illuminating given our (US)…

Representation Matters: The Still-Relevant Legacy of President James Madison “It was politic as well as just that the interests & rights of every class should be duly represented & understood in the public Councils. It was a provision every where [sic] established that the Country should be divided into districts…

The question in the beginning of the dialogue is what the source of law is. At first it seems as if the interlocutor is asking whether law comes from a divine source, such as a mystical source, or from humans. …