Chernow goes on to mention that after being elected governor of Virginia in 1779, Jefferson “found the job irksome and wanted to resign, prompting Edmund Pendleton to complain to Madison, ‘It ...

Lesson Plan: Hamilton, Washington, Jefferson, and Madison - Connections and Conflicts. Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3 Clip 4 Clip 5 Clip 6. No Saccharine Plaster Saints ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), announcing the drafting of impeachment articles, brought out all the big muskets this week. She quoted Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Gouverneur Morris ...

The Madison-Hamilton feud reminds us that, too often in our politics, we are willing to believe that our political opponents are not just wrong but bad (or evil), or at best fools.

George Washington accidentally planted the seeds of the two-party system by placing Hamilton and Jefferson, the nation’s most ferocious partisans, in his cabinet.

Madison wrote to Jefferson that the Constitution was intolerably weak, especially because the convention had rejected so many of his proposals — including a congressional veto over state laws.

A rare letter from New York Post founder Alexander Hamilton to James Madison sold this week for $113,850, surging past the original estimate of up to $10,000.

February: Madison, Jefferson and Attorney General Edmund Randolph object to Hamilton's plan for a national bank, declaring it an unconstitutional extension of the powers of the federal government.

When Jefferson ran for president in 1800, Hamilton and the Federalists backed him over Aaron Burr because he knew Jefferson held strong beliefs, while Burr remained a political enigma, said Soubra.

Burr, Jefferson, and Madison accuse Hamilton of financial embezzlement on “We Know,” prompted by Hamilton’s ex-mistress, Maria Reynolds. The story unfolds over a fast-paced instrumental, ...