In "James Madison and the Making of America, " historian Kevin Gutzman looks beyond the way James Madison is traditionally seen -- as "The Father of the Constitution" -- to find a more complex and sometimes contradictory portrait of this influential Founding Father and the ways in which he influence[...]
In "James Madison and the Making of America, " historian Kevin Gutzman looks beyond the way James Madison is traditionally seen--as "The Father of the Constitution"--to find a more complex and sometimes contradictory portrait of this influential Founding Father and the ways in which he influenced th[...]
The Constitution of the United States created a representative republic marked by federalism and the separation of powers. Yet numerous federal judges--led by the Supreme Court--have used the Constitution as a blank check to substitute their own views on hot-button issues such as abortion, capital p[...]