NEW YORK (AP) — When Random House Publisher Andrew Ward met recently with staff editors to discuss potential book projects, ...

In The Federalist No. 10, James Madison famously described this as ... the final draft until September 17 (now celebrated as Constitution Day), when delegates signed the Constitution and sent ...

With America rsquo;s constitution undergoing a stress test, it rsquo;s important to revisit and understand its fundamental ...

James Madison argued that politicians' ambition would lead them to uphold the separation of powers. Today congressmembers’ ...

A second fundamental element of the Constitution is the concept of checks and balances. As James Madison famously wrote ... for the Court is charged routinely, day in and day out, with the awesome ...

They drew their inspiration for that day from French philosopher Charles ... “Father of the Constitution” James Madison rose to address the delegates: “If it be essential to the preservation ...

And with this Monday being Patriots’ Day here in the Bay State ... was the template for the U.S. Constitution, written seven years later, by James Madison. For that refresher, MassLive turned ...

Congress and the president are answerable to the voters. The life-tenured judiciary is not. The purpose of an independent judiciary is to be the anti-democratic branch of the government. Its duty is ...