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- After I'd been meeting with Professor Steinberg for a month, he suggested I write an essay comparing Edmund Burke with Publius, the persona under which James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay had written The Federalist Papers.† (source)
- Dolley was later introduced to Congressman James Madison by their mutual friend, Aaron Burr.† (source)
- You can barely go fifty feet without hitting a historical marker for the place this army crossed, or that guy died, or where James Madison lived—† (source)
- The grand total of books he acquired in France was about 2,000, but he also bought books by the boxful for Washington, Franklin, and James Madison.† (source)
- It was in Richmond that Jefferson and James Madison crafted the statute separating church and state that would later inform the First Amendment of the Constitution.† (source)
- Frank swallowed and smiled, rose, and shook hands with me as Barthelme explained, "This is the new man, James Madison."† (source)
- I walked her to the Supreme Court and lectured her about James Madison and the separation of powers.† (source)
- Among the acquaintances and colleagues who march across the pages of his diary are Sam Adams (a kinsman), John Hancock, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Lafayette, John Jay, James Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Hart Benton, John Tyler, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Lincoln, James Buchanan, William Lloyd Garrison, Andrew Johnson, Jefferson Davis and many others.† (source)
- James Madison's Federalist No. 10 is considered by many to be the most cited of the Federalists Papers.
- He had in mind Elbridge Gerry and James Madison, who had recently retired from Congress.† (source)
- No one outside of this state gives a crap about where James Madison's house is."† (source)
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- At the same time, James Madison undertook a version of his own resolutions for Virginia.† (source)
- We passed exit after exit to Harrisonburg and the turnoffs for James Madison University.† (source)
- "My name is Madison, James Madison," I said.† (source)
- When James Madison was elected the fourth president of the United States in 1809, Dolley became one of the nation's most beloved First Ladies.† (source)
- In a high-spirited letter to Jefferson, James Madison said Hamilton's "thunderbolt" meant certain victory for Jefferson.† (source)
- It was Jefferson's successor, James Madison, who after taking office as President, rescued John Quincy from practicing law in Boston by appointing him minister to Russia.† (source)
- A few weeks later, and again in secret session, on a motion from James Madison, Adams's second prior commission, to negotiate a treaty of commerce with Britain, was also revoked.† (source)
- In the privacy of his journal he called Alexander Hamilton "a damnable villain"; Robert Morris, "the greatest blackguard"; and referred to James Madison as "His Littleness."† (source)
- James Madison had been laid up.† (source)
- But before the year was out, Congress again called for him to go to France—an idea set in motion by his close political ally, James Madison—and this time Jefferson accepted at once.† (source)
- A man of cultivated, even fastidious tastes, Jefferson was later to tell his Virginia neighbor James Madison that he had observed in Adams a certain "want of taste," this apparently in reference to the fact that Adams was known on occasion to chew tobacco and take his rum more or less straight.† (source)
- In Virginia, the president of the College of William and Mary, a cousin of Madison's, the Reverend James Madison, saw a "secret design" in the book—that Adams, under the influence of a foreign Court, was "plotting" to overturn the American government.† (source)
- James Madison, in an address to the House, had expressed the convic-tion of most Americans when he said, "The more simple, the more republican we are in our manners, the more national dignity we shall acquire."† (source)
- On the other side stood those like John Witherspoon andyoung James Madison of Virginia, who trusted the French and believed French friendship and support of such critical importance that nothing should be allowed to put the alliance at risk, and who had little faith in John Adams's "stiffness and tenaciousness of temper," as Witherspoon said in his clipped Scottish way.† (source)
- James Madison, who had taken the lead in drafting the so-called Virginia Plan, providing for three equal branches in the new government, and who had seldom ever had anything complimentary to say about Adams, declared in a letter to Jef-ferson that while men of learning would find nothing new in the book, it was certain to be "a powerful engine in forming public opinion," and, in fact, had "merit."† (source)
- Carroll Virginia John Blair— James Madison Jr. North Carolina Wm.† (source)
- James Madison Howland, born in New Hampshire, and Ole Jenson, born in Sweden, both proved that they were free American citizens by grunting, "I don't know whether I got any or not," or "Well, you can't expect me to get it delivered by noon."† (source)
- Kennicott, Sam Clark, Jackson Elder, young Dr. McGanum, and James Madison Howland, teetering on their toes near the stove, conversed with the sedate pomposity of the commercialist.† (source)
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