John Jay and the Constitution
A correspondent says, “his Excellency John Jay, (a gentleman of the first rate abilities, joined to a good heart) who at first was carried away with the new plan of
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A correspondent says, “his Excellency John Jay, (a gentleman of the first rate abilities, joined to a good heart) who at first was carried away with the new plan of
Charles Tillinghast to Timothy Pickering: Presuming on the many Proofs of Friendship and Confidence, with which you have been pleased to Honour me, I have taken the Liberty to enclose
His Excellency B. Magoffin, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: I have the honor of placing in your hands herewith, a Commission from the Governor of the State of Alabama,
My Dear Sir: I have received your letter inquiring whether my friends are at liberty to present my name to the Charleston Convention for the Presidential nomination. Before this question
Sir, You have had the graciousness, Sir, to come forward as the defender and panegyrist of the plan of a new Constitution, of which you was one of the framers.
Source: From Thomas Jefferson to the New Haven Merchants, 12 July 1801, Founders Online, National Archives, https://goo.gl/tAqQ9y. Gentlemen: I have received the remonstrance you were pleased to address to me,
Source: Thomas Jefferson to John B. Colvin, 20 September 1810, Founders Online, National Archives, https://goo.gl/RkC7ak. Your favor of the 14th has been duly received, and I have to thank you
…The business of the Convention is going on very slowly and it is still in such a Stage as to render the Results very dubious.
“William Pierce to William Short,” July 25, 1787. In Supplement to Max Farrand’s The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, edited by James H. Hutson. New Haven: Yale University Press,
“William Pierce to George Tucker,” June 27, 1787. In Supplement to Max Farrand’s The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, edited by James H. Hutson. New Haven: Yale University Press,