The U.S. Constitution was crafted in 1787 both to establish a new ... The chief instrument of limitation is the separation of ...

James Madison. Madison was instrumental in shaping the early American government. He was so involved in the creation and promotion of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights that he ...

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 ...

In 1787, he urged his friend and colleague James Madison to amend the Constitution to include a written guarantee of religious liberty. Jefferson's campaign to end state support of religion ...

The lack of a bill of rights like that found in most state constitutions, however, became a rallying cry for the Anti-Federalists, and the advocates of the Constitution (led by James Madison ...

The U.S. Constitution was crafted in 1787 both to ... of limitation is the separation of powers, the brainchild of James Madison. The late Justice Antonin Scalia called the separation of powers ...

such as James Madison, foresaw the need for national judicial power. The “one supreme Court” created by the Constitution reflected ambivalence over the nature and scope of this power ...