James Madison, the chief architect of the U.S. Constitution, recognized the problem with discretionary government fiat money and the benefit of a commodity standard and convertibility long ago.

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Madison and the Boys who created the U.S. Constitution attempted to guard against democracy running amok in this fashion by constructing a delicately balanced arrangement of limited government with separated and divided powers, and by erecting institutional checks and balances.

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Sony sold its U.S. headquarters building on New York's Madison Avenue in January, as well as other buildings in Tokyo.

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Mr. Schmitt, an adjunct professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was an Apollo 17 astronaut and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico.

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In the U.S., Mitsui is moving forward with a rental-apartment building development at 160 Madison Ave. in New York.

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The Guangzhou native went to school in Hong Kong, then came to the U.S., earning a doctorate in bacteriology and biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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In 1811, President Madison secretly dispatched a disgraced Georgia pol and land speculator named George Mathews to secure Florida for the U.S. After a year's boondoggling, Mathews and a force of nine irregulars talked the nine Spanish defenders of the island into ceding it to America, a meaningless swap that neither country recognized.

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