James Madison

James Madison seemed fragile, standing at only five feet six inches and weighing less than 140 pounds, and did not look like the type to be an influential political leader. Yet Madison was a great debater, able to use pure thought, not emotion, to win an argument. Madison is called the Father of the Constitution for a reason: he first helped create the Constitutional Convention and then worked for a strong national government that is the …

…the government and courts. His idea of helping the American people's economy first still survives to this day, and is evident in all the laws that are passed in an attempt to help the economy. As a founder of the country, the Father of the Constitution, and a Congressman, James Madison strived to help the citizens, a tradition that is visible in the careers of famous politicians such as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.