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James Madison may have provided the fewest biographies for me to read among the first four presidents but he certainly offered no less mystery.

After four books and almost 2, pages, I still find Madison as enigmatic as any of the presidents before him. But while he is the least well-known among this group, he was in no way the least accomplished.

Madison was the author, co-author and/or primary &#;champion&#; of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, The Federalist Papers, the Virginia Declaration of Rights (the section on religious freedom) and the Virginia Resolution of  He was the Sponsor of Jefferson&#;s Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the second Rector (President) of the University of Virginia, the founder of one of the earliest political parties and Secretary of State.

Oh, and he was a two-term President.

Madison was also involved in one of the most unique, powerful, extraordinary and remarkab