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JM had already committed himself to work for a new constitution to replace the Articles of...
We have been here for some time suffering a daily disappointment from the failure of the deputies...
I have put off from day to day writing to my friends from this place in hopes of being able to...
Letter not found. 27 May 1787, Philadelphia. Acknowledged in Jones to JM, 7 June 1787 . Reports...
The Federal Convention plunged into its momentous assignment without great delay chiefly because...
The delegates were considering in place of the first resolution of the Virginia Plan a substitute...
The second resolution of the Virginia Plan was under consideration. JM’s suggestion that the...
Mr. Madison considered the popular election of one branch of the national Legislature as...
Wilson had suggested that the Senate should be chosen from special political units created by a...
The clause of the sixth resolution of the Virginia Plan giving the national legislature power “to...
Mad: agrees wth. Wilson in his difinition of executive powers—executive powers ex vi termini, do...
Bedford favored a triennial election and ineligibility after nine years because the executive...
Dickinson had moved that the executive be subject to removal by the national legislature when...
Wilson and Hamilton moved to give the executive an absolute veto on laws. Mr. Madison supposed...
This speech preceded Wilson’s motion, seconded by JM, to combine the judiciary with the executive...
The clause of the ninth resolution of the Virginia Plan proposing that the judiciary be chosen by...
The Virginia Plan resolution (fifteen) providing for popularly elected ratifying conventions was...
Rutledge moved to strike out the clause of the ninth resolution providing for inferior national...
The day fixed for the meeting of the Convention was the 14th. ult. On the 25th. and not before...
I have been sensibly obliged by your favor of the 23. of March which arrived by the last Packet....
Charles Pinckney moved that the first branch of the legislature be elected by the state...
Wilson moved to reconsider the vote excluding the judiciary from a share in vetoing legislative...
Since my return to Richmond, which place I left soon after the Governor set out, I have yours of...
Dickinson moved that the members of the Senate be elected by the state legislatures. Mr. Madison....
Charles Pinckney moved “‘that the National Legislature shd. have authority to negative all Laws...
I have been discouraged from answering sooner your favor of by the bar which opposes such...
I am greatly indebted to you for the Books you were so good as to send me by Mr Griffin,...
After an absence of near three weeks I have just return’d to this place and am favourd with your...
Jenifer proposed a three-year term for members of the first branch of Congress. Mr. Madison...
The clause of the fourth resolution providing for the members “to receive liberal stipends” was...
Mr. Madison considered 7 years as a term by no means too long. What we wished was to give to the...
Your favor of the 28th. of April, the first I have recd. from you, has but just come to hand. It...
I am favoured with yours of the 10th. Instant and thank you for it. Be good enough to pay Major...
Charles Pinckney and Sherman moved that the judges of the supreme tribunal be appointed by the...
Gerry moved to prohibit the Senate from originating money bills. Mr. Madison observed that the...
On 13 June the Committee of the Whole reported to the convention the amended Virginia Plan....
I wrote you last on the 30th. of Jan. with a postscript of Feb. 5. Having set out the last day of...
Having rejected the New Jersey Plan, the convention now was considering the amended Virginia Plan...
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney moved that the members of the first branch of the legislature...
Ellsworth moved to substitute annual for triennial elections in the first branch of the...
Alquanto infermo di corpo, e più di spirito, vi scrivo in fretta pochi versi, per ringraziarvi...
The clause in the report of 13 June providing that the members of the first branch of the...
Gorham moved to strike out that part of the third resolution of the report of 13 June making a...
Read moved that the term be nine years. Mr. Madison. In order to judge of the form to be given to...
Ellsworth moved that the members of the Senate be paid by their respective states instead of by...
Letter not found. 26 June 1787. Acknowledged in Jones to JM, 6 July 1787 . Reports proceedings in...
Lansing moved for equal representation of the states in the first branch of the legislature. Mr....
We are not to know the result of your deliberations for five or six weeks to come, as from all...
Mr. Madison agreed with Docr. Johnson, that the mixed nature of the Govt. ought to be kept in...
Ellsworth, arguing the advantages of making “the general government partly federal and partly...