1To James Madison from John Leland, [ca. 15 February] 1789 (Madison Papers)
I congratulate you in your Appointment, as a Representative to Congress ; and if my Undertaking in the Cause conduced Nothing else towards it, it certainly gave Mr. Madison one Vote. I expect that Congress will be very busy for some years, in filling a continental Blank with a Code of general Laws; and I think it will be very Judicious to send those Laws very liberally into the States, that...