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James Madison
said
The papers inclosed will shew that the nauseous project of amendments has not yet been either dismissed or despatched.
— Letter to Richard Peters (19 August 1789)
James Madison
President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
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Lived 1751–1836, aged 85United States
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He wrote the blueprint. Madison arrived at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 with a plan to scrap the Articles of Confederation and build a stronger republic, then co-authored The Federalist Papers to sell it. The fourth president, but the first architect.
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Born March 16, 1751, into a Virginia planter family that held slaves, Madison joined the Patriots in 1774 and served in the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War. Dissatisfied with the weak national government, he organized the Constitutional Convention where his Virginia Plan shaped the debate, then teamed with Hamilton and Jay to write The Federalist Papers urging ratification. He broke with Hamilton in the 1790s over centralization, co-founding the Democratic–Republican Party with Jefferson, whose Secretary of State he became in 1801. Elected president in 1808, he led the countr…
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James Madison
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Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
— Letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 October 1788), as quoted in James Madison : The Writings, 1787-1790 Vol. 5 (1904)]
James Madison
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In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate.
— Speech, Constitutional Convention (29 June 1787), from Max Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Vol. I (1911), p. 465
James Madison
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The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer.
— Statement (26 June 1787) as quoted in Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787 by Robert Yates
James Madison
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In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution, it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it.
— Remarks on the institution of the Senate, in debates in the Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (26 June 1787) Journal of
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