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To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 28 April 1792

From Edmund Pendleton

Richmond, April 28, 1792.

… The Presidents getting the Representation Bill placed on constitutional ground by his Negative, and the stand made by the Judge against an unconstitutional Law, seem [to] give Gen’l pleasure, some few present Members of our Assembly & those who have imbibed prejudices there formerly, excepted as to the Judges. An Impeachment is said to be talked of, they don’t seem to approve so much the Conduct of the Gent’n at New York on the like occasion.…1

Printed extract (Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 694 [1892].

1. Hayburn’s Case, the first federal court decision to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional (see JM to Henry Lee, 15 Apr. 1792, n. 2).

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    To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 28 April 1792
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    “To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 28 April 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-14-02-0270. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 14, 6 April 1791 – 16 March 1793, ed. Robert A. Rutland and Thomas A. Mason. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983, pp. 294–295.]

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