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"New digital technologies and traditional historical investigation suggest that James Madison did not finish his famous Notes until after the Convention. The Notes are the most important, and most misunderstood, account of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. This biography of the Notes follows Madison as he created and then repeatedly revised a remarkable manuscript of American history. Originally a diary kept in part for the absent Thomas Jefferson, the Notes highlighted his fascination with the political strategy of drafting. But when the Convention began to draft the details of the Constitution, the complicated process led Madison to abandon his Notes. Only after serving in Congress and drafting new constitutional amendments did Madison return to complete them. By the time the Notes were published a half-century later, the layers of revisions made the Notes appear--inaccurately--to be an objective record of the writing of the Constitution"--

HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). --- Madison, James, --- United States. --- Helvidius, --- Mei-ti-sen, Chan-mu-shih, --- Mėdison, Dzheĭms, --- Madison, G., --- Madisŭn, Dzheĭms,

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Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, 'Father of the Constitution,' were two of the most important Founders of the United States as well as the closest of political allies. Yet historians have often seen a tension between the idealistic rhetoric of the Declaration and the more pedestrian language of the Constitution. Moreover, to some, the adoption of the Constitution represented a repudiation of the democratic values of the Revolution. In this book, Jeff Broadwater explores the evolution of the constitutional thought of these two seminal American figures, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the adoption of the Bill of Rights.

Constitutional history --- Jefferson, Thomas, --- Madison, James, --- Helvidius, --- Mei-ti-sen, Chan-mu-shih, --- Mėdison, Dzheĭms, --- Madison, G., --- Madisŭn, Dzheĭms, --- Political and social views. --- United States.

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Madison's Managers challenges public management scholars and professionals to recognize that the legitimacy and future of public administration depend on its constitutional foundations and their specific implications for managerial practice.

Constitutional history -- United States. --- Madison, James, -- 1751-1836 -- Influence. --- Public administration -- United States. --- Separation of powers -- United States. --- Public administration --- Separation of powers --- Constitutional history --- Madison, James, --- Influence. --- Helvidius, --- Mei-ti-sen, Chan-mu-shih, --- Mėdison, Dzheĭms, --- Madison, G., --- Madisŭn, Dzheĭms,

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Presidents --- Madison, Dolley, --- Madison, James, --- Last years. --- Montpelier (Va. : Estate) --- Orange County (Va.) --- Orange Co., Va. --- Madison, Dolley Payne Todd, --- Payne, Dolley, --- Madison, Dolly, --- Helvidius, --- Mei-ti-sen, Chan-mu-shih, --- Mėdison, Dzheĭms, --- Madison, G., --- Madisŭn, Dzheĭms,

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Does every increase in the power of government entail a loss of liberty for the people? James H. Read examines how four key Founders--James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson--wrestled with this question during the first two decades of the American Republic. Power versus Liberty reconstructs a four-way conversation--sometimes respectful, sometimes shrill--that touched on the most important issues facing the new nation: the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, federal authority versus states' rights, freedom of the press, the controversial Bank of the United States, the relation between nationalism and democracy, and the elusive meaning of "the consent of the governed."Each of the men whose thought Read considers differed on these key questions. Jefferson believed that every increase in the power of government came at the expense of liberty: energetic governments, he insisted, are always oppressive. Madison believed that this view was too simple, that liberty can be threatened either by too much or too little governmental power. Hamilton and Wilson likewise rejected the Jeffersonian view of power and liberty but disagreed with Madison and with each other. The question of how to reconcile energetic government with the liberty of citizens is as timely today as it was in the first decades of the Republic. It pervades our political discourse and colors our readings of events from the confrontation at Waco to the Oklahoma City bombing to Congressional debate over how to spend the government surplus. While the rhetoric of both major political parties seems to posit a direct relationship between the size of our government and the scope of our political freedoms, the debates of Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson confound such simple dichotomies. As Read concludes, the relation between power and liberty is inherently complex.

Liberty. --- Authority. --- Power (Social sciences) --- Political science --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Authoritarianism --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- History --- Jefferson, Thomas, --- Wilson, James, --- Hamilton, Alexander, --- Madison, James, --- Camillus, --- No Jacobin, --- Pacificus, --- Philo Camillus, --- Phocion, --- Han-mi-erh-teng, Ya-li-shan-ta, --- Gamilʹton, Aleksandr, --- Hamilton, Aleksander, --- Hamilton, A. --- Khamiltŭn, Aleksandŭr, --- Crassus, Lucius, --- Americanus, --- Helvidius, --- Mei-ti-sen, Chan-mu-shih, --- Mėdison, Dzheĭms, --- Madison, G., --- Madisŭn, Dzheĭms,