the American Government was just getting started. The government was still forming and many other important events happened in this time. There were many people who affected the outcome of events of this time period. One of these people was James Madison. He did many things that caused America to be like it is today. James Madison was born in March 16‚ 1751 at Port Conway in Virginia. He was the eldest of twelve children. At age twelve‚ Madison was sent to boarding school. Madison returned five
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Which branch of government do you think is the most powerful and why? I believe the most powerful branch of government is the Legislative Branch‚ because of the power it processes to keep checks and balance on the other two branches of government. There are two different houses in the legislative branch‚ the first is the house if representatives and the senate. The House of Representatives consists of 435 members elected from all 50 states‚ the District of Columbia‚ and the United States territories
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James Madison‚ Jr. (March 16‚ 1751 -- June 28‚ 1836) was an American statesman‚ political theorist and the fourth President of the United States (1809--1817). He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for being instrumental in the drafting of the United States Constitution and as the key champion and author of the United States Bill of Rights. He served as a politician much of his adult life. After the constitution had been drafted‚ Madison became one of the leaders in the movement to ratify
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his inauguration‚ James Madison‚ a small‚ wizened man‚ appeared old and worn; Washington Irving described him as "but a withered little apple-John." But whatever his deficiencies in charm‚ Madison’s ... wife Dolley compensated for them with her warmth and gaiety. She was the toast of Washington. Born in 1751‚ Madison was brought up in Orange County‚ Virginia‚ and attended Princeton. When delegates to the constitutional convention assembled at Philadelphia‚ the 36 year old madison took frequent and
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that helped shape the way the world is today. From help shaping the foundation of American culture to the way the government runs and the laws we have in place. The first group of people that started it all was our founding fathers‚ who created many documents that we still abide to today. A few of these men were George Washington‚ John Jay‚ John Adams‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ James Madison‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ and Benjamin Franklin. These men were tired of the way that the British was treating the Americans
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friend Thomas Jefferson‚ James Madison came from a prosperous family of Virginia planters‚ received an excellent education‚ and studied law though only informally and quickly found himself drawn into the debates over independence. In 1776‚ he became a delegate to the revolutionary Virginia Convention‚ where he worked closely with Thomas Jefferson to push through religious freedom statutes‚ among other liberal measures. The youngest member of the Continental Congress‚ Madison was of smaller than average
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NOTES •James Madison was very involved in the Revolutionary War during the ratification of the Constitution. He and Alexander Hamilton wrote most of the Federalist papers. “The Federalist (also known as the "Federalist Papers") is a collection of eighty-five essays on the U.S. Constitution written under the pseudonym Publius by Alexander Hamilton‚ James Madison‚ and John Jay. Madison and Hamilton eventually wrote all but five of the essays‚ which appeared serially in New York City newspapers between
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The Constitution guards against the tyranny‚ in many different ways. It begins in 1787 when our founding fathers gathered in Philadelphia to discuss a problem‚ that problem was that The Articles of Confederation was not working. They then had a long debate and decided to make a new piece of document‚ that document is now called The Constitution. It helped a new term of Federalism‚ Separation of powers‚ Checks and Balances‚ and helping to balance power between the small and larger states. The first
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think tyranny is just one absolute ruler‚ but it can be when one‚ few or many abuse their powers and become an oppressive ruler. When writing the Constitution‚ the framers had to guard against tyranny while still keeping the states united. The Articles of Confederation did not have a strong central government‚ so a new plan was needed that continued to give power to the states‚ but also gave power to the central government. The systems in the United States’ plan of government protect against tyranny
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Running head: THE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT The Branches of Government Alicia Sanders University of Phoenix His 301 The Branches of Government Ever wonder how our government works? The government was divided into three branches: the legislative‚ executive‚ and judicial. What were the reasons our forefathers divided the government into these branches? Each branch works together as a whole by a system of checks and balances in order for the government to be run properly and no one branch
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