special contributions umm he shouldn't be categorized as anything specifically as is how they've generally done it with all prominent people who didn't leave enough information on wikipedia and madison is often considered to have been a straight up atheist privately by historians but that's kind of the point that it's still very unknown though he clearly rejected standard theism i'd be inclined to consider him a deist which btw should not be capitalized but it is not a religion nor does it say anything about other beliefs that would encompass a religion actually the word could just be changed to religious belief s rather than simply religion as it stands or something similar and for that i think deism could be used since it's seemingly the most accepted stance he had or am i wrong the word's from the template which is outside this topic i read somewhere that he was an episcopalian preceding unsigned comment added by talk contribs redirect just so everyone knows madison does not redirect here despite what it says at the top of the article i have removed that template thanks talk dubious someone needs to rewrite the war of heading british insults hostile indians american's didn't really want canada come on lets see some neutral and truthful info sure the british were impressing american subjects into the royal navy and the native americans were at times hostile but the americans weren't saints to be honest the war of was one of the biggest disasters america has faced their invasion of canada bloodily repulsed native americans supported by the british and canadians a british army torching washington dc in retaliation for the torching of york during the winter season and ending up marching at will around central america doing what they wanted until a peace treaty was signed american prestige was only restored after a meaningless battle in new orelans after the war ended regardless of what people say this war did not prove young america could hold their own against the old world it showed they bit off more than they could chew in attempting to subjugate and forcibly liberate canada against the populace's will don't forget half the canadian population were loyalists during the american revolution and britain was fighting the might of napoleon in europe so the war of was something of a sideline campaign i may have rattled on a bit here buti think it just goes to show that that section needs rewriting to seem something other than some super american patriotic propaganda machine preceding unsigned comment added by meanwhile british naval officials tried to recover their losses of sailors by capturing americans from to the british navy illegally impressed some six thousand american sailors from steven m gillon and cathy d matson the american experiment a history of the united states vol nd ed page preceding unsigned comment added by more on madison's notes while madison's vital role in the convention is addressed i feel not enough attention is given to his role as the primary although unofficial note taker of the convention it is mentioned later on in the section disscussing his later life but never brought up in the father of the constitution section when his roles as a speaker and in developing the virginia plan are mentioned i feel it deserves mentioning since madison's notes are th