1From James Madison to Caleb Strong, 7 February 1814 (Madison Papers)
As the course of proceeding, marked out by the law, for the parties complaining is sufficiently understood, it remains only to assure your Excellency that the case will receive whatever interposition may be necessary and proper, in their behalf, from the Executive Authority of the U. States.
2From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 3 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
...of the constitution; and it does not appear that the powers proposed to be exercise[d] by this bill is among the enumerated powers; or that it falls by any just interpretation, within the power to make laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution those or other powers vested by the constitution in the government of the U. States.