This talk will be based on ongoing work on Prof. Bilder's new book, Madison's Hand. Madison’s Hand begins with the question: Why did James Madison take notes at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787?

The measure and its Senate counterpart, SJR 6, look to piggyback on a 1992 amendment to the Ohio Constitution that instituted ...

On June 8, 1789, James Madison rose before Congress and performed an about-face. ... Addressing his fellow delegates to the Constitutional Convention in a steamy Independence Hall, ...

In fact, when James Madison created the list of those first 12 amendments, the 50,000-person limit was the very first amendment. The right to free speech was third (after the ones about ...

Writing out the Constitution by hand I spent three weeks copying the United States Constitution by hand. Why? To learn. Fifty ...

In a letter written to James Madison from Paris, Thomas Jefferson opined that “no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. . . . Every constitution, then, and every law, ...

James Madison tried to place firm limits on the size and scope of the federal government. ... when the Constitutional Convention submitted its final product for state ratification, ...

James Madison, the greatest influence, and only 37 years old, championed a Virginia Plan that eventually dominated the final document. He had prepared for the convention the previous winter by ...

It was altogether fitting that James Wilson, second in importance only to James Madison as an architect of the Constitution, would be nominated by President George Washington to the original ...

On June 8, 1789, James Madison rose before Congress and performed an about-face. ... Addressing his fellow delegates to the Constitutional Convention in a steamy Independence Hall, ...