Resolutions Adopted by the Hartford Convention
Source: Public Documents: Containing Proceedings of the Hartford Convention of Delegates … , Published by order of the [Massachusetts] Senate, 1815, 3, 9, 12, 13, 14–15, 20–21, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Public_Documents/NLtEAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. The delegates […]
Resolutions Regarding the Enforcement Act for the Embargo
Source: Herman V. Ames, State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United States (1900; Law Book Exchange, 2006), 34–36, https://www.google.com/books/edition/State_Documents_on_Federal_Relations/Bw8jd_zKuwIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq. On viewing these provisions of the act under […]
Report of 1800, Virginia General Assembly
Source: “The Report of 1800, [7 January] 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-17-02-0202. Whatever room might be found in the proceedings of some of the states, who have disapproved of […]
Response to the Virginia Resolutions
Source: A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field (DOCID+@lit(ed00493)). The legislature of Massachusetts, having taken into serious consideration the resolutions of the […]
Virginia Resolutions
Source: “Virginia Resolutions, 21 December 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-17-02-0128. Resolved, that the General Assembly of Virginia doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution […]
Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank
Source: “Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank, 15 February 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-19-02-0051. … I consider the foundation of the Constitution as […]
Remarks at Virginia Ratifying Convention
Source: Patrick Henry, Remarks at Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1788, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(ed0038)). Mr. Chairman, I am much obliged to the very worthy gentleman for his encomium. I wish I was […]
Federalist 46
Source: “The Federalist Number 46, [29 January] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0261. Resuming the subject of the last paper I proceed to inquire whether the federal government or the […]
Federalist 45
Source: “The Federalist Number 45, [26 January] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0254. … Several important considerations have been touched in the course of these papers, which discountenance the supposition […]
Federalist 39
Source: “The Federalist Number 39, [16 January] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0234. … But it was not sufficient, say the adversaries of the proposed constitution, for the convention to […]