Since the 1770s there have been more than 250 state constitutional conventions, requiring, in many cases, residents of those ...

10, James Madison famously described this as the ... which will ever subsist between them." When the Constitutional Convention assembled on the morning of September 17, 1787, the completed ...

The provisions caused no significant debate at the Constitutional Convention, and James Madison described them in The Federalist No. 44 as “fall[ing] within reasonings which are either so ...

As a delegate to the Constitutional Convention ... This "elective monarch" (in the words of note-taker James Madison), would also serve "during good behavior," meaning indefinitely, without ...