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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The presidential difference in the early republic -- The foundational presidency of George Washington -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson and the art of governance -- The anticlimactic presidency of James Madison -- The political competence of James Monroe -- The political incompetence of John Quincy Adams -- Andrew Jackson -- Presidents, leadership qualities, and political development…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…James Madison's principle of state noncognizance of religion -- George Washington on church and state : religion and the civic good -- Thomas Jefferson's natural rights philosophy and anticlerical politics of religious liberty -- Madison's, Washington's, and Jefferson's church-state doctrines -- Madison, Washington, Jefferson and the establishment clause -- Madison, Washington, Jefferson, and the free exercise clause -- The founders v. the Supreme Court -- The founders and church-state jurisprudence…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Information technology and democratic governance/ Failure in the cybermarketplace of ideas/ James Madison on cyberdemocracy/ The impact of the Internet on civic life: an early assessment/ Revolution, what revolution? …”

“…Jack Rakove, professor of history at Stanford University, now approaches the debates surrounding the framing and ratification of the Constitution from the vantage point of history, examining the personal influences the various framers, especially James Madison, exerted over the process…”

“…"División de poderes, rigidez constitucional, control judicial de la constitucionalidad de las leyes... todos estos conceptos en los que se basan las democracias y a los que acudimos para verificar la salud de nuestro sistema político, proceden de la primera Constitución escrita, la que, a finales del siglo XVIII representó, en palabras de James Madison, "el mayor esfuerzo de deliberación nacional que ha acontecido en el mundo". …”

“…The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men responsible--some familiar, such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, and some less so, such as Robert Morris and Governeur Morris. …”

“…Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that the earth belongs to the living. His letter to James Madison is often quoted for the proposition that we should not be bound to the 'dead hand of the past', suggesting that the Constitution should instead be interpreted as a living, breathing document. …”

“…En un lenguaje claro y directo, se analizan las ideas que constituyen el fundamento del sistema capitalista, sus raíces en pensadores como John Locke, James Madison o Adam Smith, así como las proezas y descubrimientos de James Watt, Eli Whitney o Henry Ford, elementos todos ellos que constituyen parte esencial de la tradición de una sociedad libre en la que el capitalismo americano se ha formado y desarrollado…”

“…The phrase "Uppermost Canada," denoting the western frontier of Upper Canada (modern Ontario), was applied to the Canadian shore of the Detroit River during the War of 1812 by a British officer, who attributed it to President James Madison. The Western District was one of the partly-judicial, partly-governmental municipal units combining contradictory arisocratic and democratic traditions into which the province was divided until 1850. …”