James Madison's Purposes Of The Constitution

James Madison was born on March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia. In 1787, James Madison represented the state of Virginia at the Constitution Convention at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The purpose of this convention was to revise and the Articles of Confederation and to create a Constitution. The main purposes of the Constitution was to create a national government with checks and balances, provide and delegate powers to both the federal and state governments and to provide rights and liberties to the American citizens of this country. In James Madison’s Virginia plan, he proposed the ideas having our three branches of government, the legislative, judicial and executive branches, and the idea of having a bicameral system within Congress.
James Madison’s ideas helped create the Constitution that we have today. During the time when the constitution was being ratified, James Madison introduced a set of amendments that soon got approved in 1791 that is now known as the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was created for the individuals, the citizens of this country, to have individual rights and liberties entitled to them at birth that they are completely entitled to and specifically describes what is prohibited for the government to infringed upon. Thomas Jefferson described the “bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse.” In the final approved version of the Bill of Rights, it lists ten amendments. The amendments were written in “broad language” but in a way, very specific as well. Even though all ten of the amendments are very important, the first two amendments are probably the most talked about, especially today in modern America. The first amendment describes that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment” of the freedom of religion, speech, press or petition against our government