1To James Madison from “A Plain Man,” [8 March] 1802 (Madison Papers)
The system of the administration generally, but especially that part of it which respects the courts, is believed to be so hostile to the Union, and so opposed to your former opinions on the subject, that I cannot resist the inclination I feel, to ask your attention to a few observations, on a point so universally interesting. The friends of the constitution, who consider that instrument as a...