James Madison was a great thinker who created Ideas to make improvements In America which lead to big achievements for James madison. Madison was born in Montpelier orange county virginia on March 16th 1751 to James Madison Sr. and Nellie Madison. He was raised on his family plantation were 100 slaves lived. When Madison turned 18 he attended New Jersey college, Madison often took a interest on the relationship between American colonies and Britain. With that interest in mind when the American revolutionary war came around in (1775-83) Madison became a colonel in orange county. Madison later gave up military career for a political one. Madison soon represented orange county at the Virginia constitutional convention which lead to Madison organizing a new state government the was not in the British rule. In 1780 Madison became a virginia delegate to the continental congress. He soon left to return to the virginia assembly to work on a religious freedom status in 1783. But yet aging, madison called back into congress to be apart of the new constitution. …show more content…
Madison also believed the the government should be set up with an system called checks and balances (which would establish that no branch had power over the other.) In 1787 delegates from each state came to hear Madison’s Ideas. Madison then thought of another idea that the government needed a three branches legislative,executive and Judicial Madison's plans would eventually forms the basis of the US Constitution. Madison is now known as the (Father of the constitution.). In 1789-1797 serves for the house of representatives through this time in his life Madison would draft the bill of