Congress and the president are answerable to the voters. The life-tenured judiciary is not. The purpose of an independent ...

It was Tuesday, July 17, 1787 and the men writing the Constitution had convened in Philadelphia to debate the separation of powers between the Congress ... James Madison rose to address the ...

Congress has failed the test and betrayed the vision of the Founders. Its best articulation is found in the Federalist Papers, written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison ...

James Madison and James Monroe are often remembered ... Many in the top tier are there because they extracted what they wished from Congress—Roosevelt, the paradigm of this, clocked in at ...

Step aside Elon Musk and make way for the “OG” of DOGE, James Madison ... state and a Congress that has aggrandized federal power, it should take comfort in knowing that Madison and the ...

The executive power shall be vested in the president of the United States of America,” the first clause of the first section of Article II of the Constitution dictates. Not a fr ...

James Madison, writing in Federalist No. 43, noted he still expected Congress to provide “a municipal legislature for local purposes.” The federal district’s government changed frequently in ...

Major Acts: British seizure of American seamen pushed James Madison to ask Congress for a declaration of war in June 1812. The United States entered the conflict without a strong military.