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Madison, James

  1. A political leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; one of the Founding Fathers . Madison was a member of the Continental Congress . A leader in the drafting of the Constitution , he worked tirelessly for its adoption by the states, contributing several essays to . He served as president from 1809 to 1817, after Thomas Jefferson . The United States fought the War of 1812 during his presidency. He was married to one of the most celebrated of presidents' wives, Dolley Madison .


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True, this may not be what James Madison had in mind when he was writing the Bill of Rights.

But I rest my case with this fact: James Madison, Ben Franklin, and George Washington said so.

According to James Madison, there was “a considerable pause.”

As President, the Father of the Constitution James Madison drank a pint a day.

The small landholders,” Jefferson wrote to his fellow Virginian James Madison, “are the most precious part of a state.

In the same session, James Madison actively participated in a discussion concerning religious liberty and tolerance.

This clause was adopted, and James Madison for the first time attracted state-wide attention to his thinking and philosophy.

James Madison, a most profound student of government, is considered as the most influential member of the convention.

James Madison Stark's pleasures had been the joys of solitude rather than the raptures of vast accumulations.

James Madison was chosen his successor, and George Clinton relected vice-president.

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