Why Is James Madison A Good President

James Madison, Leader or Destroyer Some people might come to a certain conclusion about a person and think that they might make a great teacher or a great coach, but what about a president? Someone can be great at some things, but not so great in the role of others in my opinion. James Madison was better in politics than being president and I will try to argue my opinion. When he was not president, he wrote the Constitution. When he was president, he started wars, one of them being the Revolution, but instead of fighting in said wars, he always ran away from them. James Madison was being a coward, not a leader. He was a great man in some things and a not so much a great man in others. James Madison was a man who helped many people get their jobs in government. He did a lot for George Washington, so he was like his right hand man. He helped Washington with his presidency and he really wanted him to stay president for a longer period of time. One of the biggest key parts of James Madison’s identity is that he wrote the Constitution and, “Father of the Constitution during his lifetime, and he was borne the title ever since” (6). He was one of the fore fathers and the fourth president of the United States, but that comes later, much later. He was also, the
America and Britain eventually signed a treaty to end things, “the Treaty of Ghent” (218). James Madison’s goals of war have gone down to one, “necessary . . . to assert the rights and independence of the nation” (219). He may have started the wars, but he had intentions for independence. With these intentions to assert the rights and independence of the nation, these wars became more of a means to assert dominance, and after the dominance was asserted other nations followed suit in signing a treaty in proof they couldn’t beat this growing force of the United