![]() ![]() ![]() Madison was born in 1751 on a Virginia plantation that he later named Montpelier after a French city he never visited. Yet only now are most Americans coming to appreciate his legacy. And he successfully incorporated those principles and his improvements into the fundamental laws of the United States. More than any other member of the founding generation, Madison grasped abstract principles of political theory-in some cases revising or challenging them with his own keen insights. ![]() Of all of the political thinkers in human history, few-perhaps none-so effectively have combined a sophisticated understanding of political philosophy with the practical skills of a politician as James Madison, the short, shy, scholarly Virginian known today as the Father of the Constitution. ![]()
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