Madison, James(Great Little Madison)

1751 - Born in Virginia on the 16th of May, as very sick child.

1762 - Sent to neighboring school to study at mr.robertson's school.

1769 - Attends princeton college at New jersey.

1772 - Taught younger siblings at home.

1774 - Lected orange county at state convention.

1776 - Decleration of Independence.

1779 - Befriends Thomas Jefferson.

1780 - Arrives in Philadelphia as a delegate for the contential congress.

1784 - Elected to the house of delegates in Virginia.

1786 - Invites all states to edit the articles of confederation, declined.

1787 - Shay's Rebellion.

1787 - Meet to edit the articles of confederation.

1787 - Contitution complete, ready to be signed.

Earns the nickname great Little Madison.

1787-1788 - Fedralist papers published.

1789 - Election for presidential eletors.

1779 - Members of congree elected.

1789 - Congress meets in new york.

1791 - Madison's bill of rights are ratified.

1794 - Marries dolley payne todd.

1798 - Congress passes alien and sedition act.

1799 - Washington dies, December.

1809 - Embargo act repealed.

1809 - Madison is 4th president.

1812 - Madison declares war against Engalnd.

1813 - Elected 2nd term presidency.

1814 - Washington state is burned down.

1817 - Madison returns to montpelier, virginia.

1826 - Jefferson and Adams die, on the 4th of July.

1829 - A delegate of richmond convention.

1832 - President of American colonization society.

1832 - Dies at home.

• "Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?"
• "What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their natural and surest support."
• "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
• "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."