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The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, often called simply the Madison Program, is a scholarly institute within the Department of Politics at Princeton University that is "dedicated to exploring enduring questions of American constitutional law and Western political thought."
The Madison Program was founded in 2002 and is headed by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. According to Jane Mayer, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, it was founded as a "beachhead" of the "conservative cells" established by the conservative John M. Olin Foundation at "the most influential schools in order to gain the greatest leverage". The Olin Foundation made $525,000 in grant money available. According to Mayer, George is "an outspoken social and religious conservative."
The Program has been praised for its ability to enable cooperation between Catholic and Evangelical Christians.