The lifelong home of James Madison, our fourth president, and the father of our Constitution. What did it really feel like to be at the birth of the United States Find out at Montpelier when you visit the 2, 700 acres of rolling pasturelands, formal gardens and national landmark forest that surround the home of James Madison near Orange Virginia.

Biography of James Madison, the fourth President of the United States (1809-1817).

James Madison: his historical and political legacy. The life of James Madison provides a unique unifying perspective on the early development of the critical institutions and practices of the government of the United States.

James Madison - a Mainstream Revolutionary A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. - James Madison, from a letter to W.T. Barry, August 4, 1822 Book ...