The Declaration of Independence - Essay

The American Revolution emerges, and new ideas and changes were made from the Founding Fathers. The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation...were all made and ratified from the Founding Fathers. One of the Founding Fathers did not experience the American Revolution. James Madison, a federalist who was a republican-democratic had many goals he wanted to achieve. He looked back and was able to see what aspects of were done wrong and try to renew them for the future of the United States. James Madison, a Founding Father was the most influential to establish the United States. 
James Madison attended Princeton, he was a student of history and government, well-read in law, he participated in the framing of the Virginia Constitution in 1776, served in the Continental Congress, and was a leader in the Virginia Assembly. Madison’s schooling at Princeton better prepared him in many ways, for the writing of the Virginia Plan and even more the United States Constitution.
Today Madison is considered “Father of the Constitution of the United States” or “Godfather of the Constitution, This term was not coined to Madison until many years after the Constitution was written.   Madison made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing, with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, the Federalist essays,  that appeared in various New York newspapers and then circulated around the states. There were 85 essays in all. Madison protested that the document was not "the off-spring of a single brain," but "the work of many heads and many hands."
When James Madison and the other 56 delegates went to the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in May 1787, they intended to amend the Articles of Confederation. They ended up creating a new constitution, and Madison, representing Virginia, became the chief recorder of information. 
Madison had helped develop Virginia's Constitution 11 years earlier, and it was his "Virginia Plan" that served as the...