James Madison University is named eponymously to honor the fourth president of the United States, James Madison. Madison was ...

So, JD Vance is now saying that he and Trump don’t have to obey federal judges, tweeting, “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” This is how autocrats run things; it’s an ...

As Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, James Madison inadvertently began a pattern in which this cabinet office position would lead directly to the presidency. This would continue until 1828, with ...

James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution ... sponsored the Bill of Rights. As president, Madison helped establish the Democratic-Republican Party of Jeffersonian ideals.

Two contemporaries born in the 18th century provide reasons for guarded optimism about 21st-century U.S. politics. Democrats are suddenly, if only situationally, admiring James Madison (1751-1836).

James Monroe was the last of the so-called Virginia Dynasty of presidents. Like James Madison, Monroe was secretary of state before becoming president. A spirit of vigorous nationalism known as the ...

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 ...

Barbara Coleman came to see Carpenters’ Hall, the site of the original Continental Congress convening in 1774 and where the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was created. Having tea amid that history was ...