Expansion of federal power returned after the elections of 1808 and 1812, when Constitution-writer James Madison won the presidency. US president Andrew Jackson largely settled the debate over ...

When James Madison became president in 1809 ... As Albert Gallatin would say of Madison in December 1808, “Mr. Madison is, as I always knew him, slow in taking his ground, but firm when the ...

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816 ...

The paper focuses on an 1823 letter written by James Madison ... of Madisonian democracy in America. Madison’s letter described a Condorcet-based electoral system that, if put into effect, would ...

James Madison succeeded Jefferson as president and also had different vice presidents during his eight years in office. Clinton ran as the vice-presidential candidate in the election of 1808 and ...

In 2016 and 2020 Donald Trump lost the popular election by several million votes ... through more informed and educated minds. James Madison stepped forward to coin the term “filtration ...

WOODSTOCK, Va. (WHSV)—The Shenandoah County Public School Board voted to proceed with more than $4 million in capital improvement projects following a unanimous vote tied to a surplus in the ...

(RNS) — A preacher trafficked in anti-Catholicism at a rally near Madison Square Garden 140 years ... That year the candidate was GOP Sen. James G. Blaine, who addressed a crowd of hundreds ...

Saturday's James Madison-Charlotte matchup got a bit chippy at a point, but one player might have taken things a bit too far. With James Madison leading, 23-7, in the fourth quarter, Charlotte ...

Rep. Mike Gallagher vacated the seat in April, so Tuesday’s primary will take place alongside a special primary election for the remainder of Gallagher’s term. The same three candidates are competing ...

The James Madison Institute (JMI), a conservative think ... campaign and allow an audit of their finance activity after the election. The amendment would repeal that provision, effectively ...