651Judicial Powers of the National Government, [20 June] 1788 (Madison Papers)
On 19 June, Mason charged the judicial powers were bound to adversely affect thousands of...
652Copy of a Protestant Episcopal Church Petition to the General Assembly of Virginia, [July?] 1785 (Madison Papers)
Whether JM wrote the petition calling for repeal of the act incorporating the Protestant...
653Notes on Buffon’s Histoire naturelle, [completed ca. May 1786] (Madison Papers)
Rural St. Thomas’s parish in Orange County, Virginia, was not totally isolated from the world of...
654Popular Election of the First Branch of the Legislature, [31 May] 1787 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison considered the popular election of one branch of the national Legislature as...
655Weaknesses of the Confederation, [7 June] 1788 (Madison Papers)
At Henry’s invitation, Randolph defended the direct taxing powers and the system of...
656Notes for Speech in Congress, [ca. 9 April] 1789 (Madison Papers)
Notes on commercial policy Importance of right outset—more easy to limit—than unfetter—1. prove...
657Rule of Representation in the First Branch of the Legislature, [28 June] 1787 (Madison Papers)
Lansing moved for equal representation of the states in the first branch of the legislature. Mr....
658Rule of Representation in the Legislature, [5 July] 1787 (Madison Papers)
A grand committee (one delegate from each state) was appointed on 2 July to resolve the...
659Vices of the Political System of the United States, April 1787 (Madison Papers)
Long before the deputies assembled at Philadelphia in May 1787, JM had begun mentally “to revolve...
660The Federalist Number 19, [8 December] 1787 (Madison Papers)
The examples of antient confederacies, cited in my last paper, have not exhausted the source of...