Who is James Madison

James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.

Madison was born into a prominent planter family in Virginia. He served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Continental Congress during and after the American Revolutionary War. Disillusioned by the weak national government established by the Articles of Confederation, he helped organize the Constitutional Convention, which produced a new constitution. Madison's Virginia Plan served as the basis for the Convention's deliberat...
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James Madison Quotes

• A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
• To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
• A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
• Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
• Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

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Comments about James Madison

• Frankatillery: once again...tragically, sadly...once again. we keep sidestepping the fact that there are more firearms in our nation than citizens. i do not think this is what james madison had in mind when the second amendment was ratified in 1791. when will it end?
• Dranderson15: 1/ of the small body of african-american writing about migration to the pacific coast in the mid-19th c., the strangest is a poem by the abolitionist poet james madison bell (1826-1902) entitled "descriptive voyage from new york to aspinwall":
• Usaprimero: "the second amendment, ratified in 1791, was proposed by james madison to allow the creation of civilian forces that can counteract a tyrannical federal government." not for a national guard, not for hunting, not for self defense, not for anything but to keep government in check.
• Thehamiltonbot: sadly, james madison caught an illness 200 hours ago. -theodosia
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