Authors: James Madison

1787–1789

Report of 1800, Virginia General Assembly

Source: “The Report of 1800, [7 January] 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-17-02-0202. Whatever room might be found in the proceedings of some of the states, who have disapproved of

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1787–1789

Virginia Resolutions

Source: “Virginia Resolutions, 21 December 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-17-02-0128. Resolved, that the General Assembly of Virginia doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution

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Debate on Amendments to the Constitution

Sources: Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 1st Congress, 1st Session, 790, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=001/llac001.db&recNum=394; Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 1st Congress, 1st Session, 798, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=001/llac001.db&recNum=399. August 18, 1789 The 9th

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1787–1789

Federalist 46

Source: “The Federalist Number 46, [29 January] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0261. Resuming the subject of the last paper I proceed to inquire whether the federal government or the

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1787–1789

Federalist 45

Source: “The Federalist Number 45, [26 January] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0254.  … Several important considerations have been touched in the course of these papers, which discountenance the supposition

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1787–1789

Federalist 39

Source: “The Federalist Number 39, [16 January] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0234.  … But it was not sufficient, say the adversaries of the proposed constitution, for the convention to

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1787–1789

Debate on National Veto of State Laws

Sources: The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911), https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/farrand-the-records-of-the-federal-convention-of-1787-vol-1#lf0544-01_head_107; Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a Member,

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1787–1789

Letter from James Madison to George Washington

Source: “From James Madison to George Washington, 16 April 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-09-02-0208. I have been honored with your letter of the 31 of March, and find with

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1789–1825

The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates

Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Pacificus-Helvidius Debates (June 1793– October 1793), Founders Online, https://founders.archives.gov/?q=Pacificus&s=1111311111&sa=&r=7&sr=; https://founders.archives.gov/?q=Helvidius&s=1111311111&sa=&r=9&sr=; https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-15-02-0070. Pacificus I | Alexander Hamilton | June 29, 1793 As attempts are making very

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