They didn’t expand it, but created it.
Jefferson and Madison believed that the constitution discouraged the concentration of the power in the federal government.
False information: Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe... I think you get where I am going, don't you? George Washington! :s
Laws would have been stricter if Washington had listened to Madison and Jefferson's interpretation of the constitution. - opinion
False information: Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe... I think you get where I am going, don't you? GEORGE WASHINGTON! :s
James Madison was the co-founder, along with Thomas Jefferson, of the political party opposing the Federalists, known as the Democratic-Republicans. They formed the party in response to their disagreements with the policies of the Federalist Party, particularly their view of a strong central government. Madison and Jefferson advocated for states' rights and a more limited role for the federal government.
Compact theory proposes that because the United States was formed by a compact among the states, the federal government is a creation of the states. Jefferson and Madison both subscribed to this notion.
I make the argument that Madison was never Jefferson's protege. Madison and Jefferson met when they were both members of the Virginia House of Delegates. Madison was the younger of the two but in the course of this relationship he never found himself in a position in which he was learning from Jefferson as a protege does. If you read the earlier papers of Madison his ideas do not differ from his ideas after meeting Jefferson. There is the argument that Madison was a firm believer in a strong federal government in the fashion that Hamilton was but then later is a believer in small government like Jefferson but a closer examination of his philosophy reveals a more consistent character. Like Hamilton, Madison believed throughout his career that a strong union was necessary. Like Jefferson, Madison believed that government required limits that Hamilton thought were hampered a robust national government. Madison believed, before Jefferson went to France, in a Franco-American alliance and encouraged a hesitant Jefferson to become the diplomat to France. He worked with Jefferson in the VA House of Delegates. He worked with Gov. Jefferson as a member of the Counsel of State. He encouraged him to go to France and then to return to America to become the first Sec. of State. He was Jefferson's younger ally. But to be a protege Madison would have had to sit at Jefferson's feet and expect to learn something he did not already know and believe. If anything, Madison was always the steady voice common sense that balanced Jefferson's boundless energy.
Washington, Madison, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, and Hamilton
Jefferson and Madison supported small government control (and a stricter interpretation of the Constituation), while Adams and the Federalists wanted more government power.
Thomas Jefferson= He helped write it and he signed it! George Washington= President of the constitution! James Madison= He brought forth the Virginia plan, therefore became known as the Constitution! The Virginia plan wasn't the only part of the Constitution you retard. go get an education
The Democratic-Republicans, led by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson searched a way to fight the alien and sedition acts. they found it in a theory that the federal government could not violate. Jefferson & Madison wrote resolution (or statements) passed by Kentucky and Virginia legislatures in 1798 and 1799.
They believed it violated basic human rights and was designed to give powers to the federal government that belonged to the separate states.