“From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/oeme. Dear Sir My last was intended for the Augst. Packet and put into the hands of Commodore
“To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 6 June 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/mow8. The day fixed for the meeting of the Convention was the 14th.ult: on the 25th. and not
“From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/uxkk. . . . The Convention continue to sit, and have been closely employed since the Commencemt. of
“From James Madison to James Monroe, 10 June 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/ky9o. Dear Sir I have been discouraged from answering sooner your favor of______ 1 by the bar which opposes such
“From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 28 July 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/1u3h. I am sorry that I cannot gratify your wish to be informed of the proceedings of
Source: “James Madison to Edward Pendleton1.” May 27, 1787. In The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Volume III, edited by Max Farrand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911. https://www.loc.gov/resource/llscdam.llfr003/?st=gallery. I have
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a Member (Ashland, Ohio: Ashbrook Center, 2014), 77-86. The following remarks were recorded by James Madison at the
“From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 8 April 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/nieb. I am glad to find that you are turning your thoughts towards the business of May next.
President’s Annual Message, 14th Cong., 2nd sess., Annals of Congress, S12. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/yfsn. Fellow—Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: In reviewing the present state of our country, our attention cannot
President’s Message, 14th Cong., 1st sess., Annals of Congress, S11. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/yfsn. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I have the satisfaction on our present meeting of being able to
