1From James Madison to Thomas S. Grimké, 15 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
I return my thanks Sir for the copy of a Report on the question of reducing the Laws of S. Carolina to the form of a Code. The Report, presents certainly very able & interesting views of the subject, and can leave no doubt of the practicability & utility of such a digest of the Statute law as would prune it of its redundancies of every sort, clear it of its obscurities, and introduce what ever...