James Madison: Journey To The White House

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James Madison: Journey to the White House James Madison has just been elected the fourth president of the United States. People are calling him a “Founding Father” of the nation. Born into a prominent Virginia planting family, President Madison served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and The Continental Congress. Madison helped organize the Constitutional Convention, which produced a new constitution to supplant the ineffective Articles of Confederation. Madison served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1784 to 1786. Madison criticized the tendency for delegates to cater to the particular interests of their constituents, even if such investments were destructive to the state at large. Madison believed this “excessive