It is said that that James Madison, who later became the 4th president of the United States, was the hardest working and most widely respected man of his day. James Madison had more to do with the conception of the United States Constitution and the first ten amendments than any other founding father of this nation. Madison was a strong Republican born into an aristocratic family in Port Conway, Virginia, he was the eldest of twelve children (Tanger,Wikipedia).
Madison was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Committee, who drafted Virginia's first constitution and a Bill of Rights that later became a model for the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution. Madison actively in supported religious toleration and was an advocate for the separation of church and state.
A provision was inserted in the Fifth Amendment that allowed congress to make amendments to the Constitution with a two thirds vote in both houses. Another way to amend the Constitution that has......
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