This tradition was established by the decisions of early presidents such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James ...

20. James Madison, I Annals Of Congress 434 (June 8, 1789) 21. Nicholas J. Johnson Et Al., Firearms Law And The Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, And Policy 282 (2nd Ed. 2018). 22. Thomas ...

9 —Josiah Quincy II, prominent spokesman for the Boston Sons of Liberty If the Second Amendment protects ... published by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay advocating ratification ...

In the words of James Madison: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed ...

As Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, James Madison inadvertently began a pattern in which this cabinet office position would lead directly to the presidency. This would continue until 1828, with ...