On 12 Dec. 1821 United States senator Richard M. Johnson proposed amending the constitution as follows: “That, in all controversies where the judicial power of the United States shall be so construed as to extend to any case in law or equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, or treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority, and to which a State shall be a party; and in all controversies in which a State may desire to become a party, in consequence of having the Constitution or laws of such State questioned, the Senate of the United States shall have appellate jurisdiction.” Johnson successfully moved that the proposal be tabled on 18 Mar. 1822 (Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834–56, 42 vols. (All editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. Citations given below are to the edition mounted on the Library of Congress Digital Collections website and give the date of the debate as well as page numbers.) description ends , 17th Cong., 1st sess., 23, 298). mo: motion.

On 2 Feb. 1822 the Virginia House of Delegates heard and tabled a resolution by Richard Eppes instructing Virginia’s United States senators and requesting its representatives to support five amendments to the constitution collectively designed to protect states’ rights (JHD description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia description ends [1821–22 sess.], 162; Richmond Enquirer, 5 Feb. 1822).

The chesterfield delegates to the Virginia House of Delegates were William R. Johnson and Allen McRae (Leonard, General Assembly description begins Cynthia Miller Leonard, comp., The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members, 1978 description ends , 308). The poet François de Malherbe reportedly defended the French language on his deathbed (Jean Pierre Niceron, Memoires pour servir a l’Histoire des Hommes Illustres dans la republique des lettres [Paris, 1727–45], 7:45–6).