Ms (DLC); Tr (DLC) in an unidentified hand. The Ms is one of a series of memorandums and notes JM appended to his Notes on Debates. Although the precise date of the Ms cannot be determined, it is placed here because of its relation to JM’s speech on suffrage of 7 Aug. 1787 at the Federal Convention. It is possible that JM wrote the note shortly after that speech, for he speaks of “appointments for the General Government here contemplated,” as if the Constitution had not yet become a reality. The note is one of three notes on suffrage that are placed together in JM’s appendix to his Debates. From internal evidence (an allusion to the New York Constitution of 1821) the second note, which is by far the longest of the three, could not have been written before 1821. The third note was written during the Virginia Convention of 1829–1830. All three notes were printed in the appendix to the first edition of JM’s writings (Madison, Papers [Gilpin ed.] description begins Henry D. Gilpin, ed., The Papers of James Madison (3 vols.; Washington, 1840). description ends , III, viii–xvi). Rives included them in a section entitled, “Notes on Suffrage, written at different periods after [JM’s] retirement from public life” (Madison, Letters [Cong. ed.] description begins [William C. Rives and Philip R. Fendall, eds.], Letters and Other Writings of James Madison (published by order of Congress; 4 vols.; Philadelphia, 1865). description ends , IV, 21–30). Hunt printed the first two as a footnote to JM’s speech of 7 Aug. 1787 and the third as a footnote to a speech by JM at the convention of 1829–1830 (Madison, Writings [Hunt ed.] description begins Gaillard Hunt, ed., The Writings of James Madison (9 vols.; New York, 1900–1910). description ends , IV, 121–27 n.; IX, 358–60 n.). Farrand printed the first as a footnote to JM’s speech of 7 Aug. 1787 and the second as one of the documents in his appendix volume (Records, II, 204 n. 17; III, 450–55).