BIOGRAPHY

Ketcham, Ralph. “James Madison at Princeton.” Princeton University Library Chronicle 28, no. 1 (autumn 1966): 24-54.

Provides an account of Madison's three years at the College of New Jersey, which came to be known as Princeton University, including details of the curriculum, the faculty, and the political atmosphere.

CRITICISM

Branson, Roy. “James Madison and the Scottish Enlightenment.” Journal of the History of Ideas 40, no. 2 (April-June 1979): 235-50.

Explores the connections between Madison's political and social theory and the writings of the philosophers associated with the Scottish Enlightenment: David Hume, Adam Smith, John Millar, Adam Ferguson, and William Robertson.

Carey, George W. “Separation of Powers and the Madisonian Model: A Reply to the Critics.” The American Political Science Review 72, no. 1 (March 1978): 151-64.

Responds to critics who have charged that Madison supported separation of powers as a means of protecting the interests of particular influential groups and claims that Madison's true motives were to guard against governmental tyranny.

Epstein, David F. The Political Theory of the Federalist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984, 234 p.

Presents a thorough examination of The Federalist, including an extended discussion of Madison's Federalist No. 10.

Koch, Adrienne. “The Constitution and the Bill of Rights.” In Jefferson and Madison: The Great Collaboration, 1950. Reprint, pp. 33-61. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Examines Madison's reputation as a scholar and statesman earned while serving as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.

Riemer, Neal. James Madison: Creating the American Constitution. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1986, 203 p.

Assesses Madison's political theory regarding the possibility of republicanism within a state as large as late eighteenth-century America.

Scott, James Brown. James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and Their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1918, 149 p.

Provides an in-depth examination of Madison's notes from the Constitutional Convention of 1787, reviewing Madison's record of the debates and compromises that resulted in the U.S. Constitution.

Sorenson, Leonard R. Madison on the “General Welfare” of America: His Consistent Constitutional Vision. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995, 178 p.

Responds to criticism of apparent contradictions and inconsistencies in Madison's political theory.

Wills, Garry. “The ‘Hamiltonian’ Madison.” In Explaining America: The Federalist, pp. 1-54. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.

Explores various sources which influenced Madison's political thought in The Federalist essays.

Additional coverage of Madison’s life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 37; and Literature Resource Center.