The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention, of the State of Pennsylvania, to Their Constituents
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Source: Nathaniel Breading, Eleazer Oswald, Pennsylvania Convention, and Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection, The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention, of the State of Pennsylvania, to Their […]
Debate on National Veto of State Laws
Sources: The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911), https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/farrand-the-records-of-the-federal-convention-of-1787-vol-1#lf0544-01_head_107; Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a Member, […]
Letter from James Madison to George Washington
Source: “From James Madison to George Washington, 16 April 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-09-02-0208. I have been honored with your letter of the 31 of March, and find with […]
Letters about Isaac Newton
WITHERSPOON’S LETTER To the PUBLISHER of the PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE. SIR, I have read with some attention the piece in your two last magazines under the title of A Proposal for […]
Notes on the State of Virginia: Query 17
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (London: John Stockdale, 1787), 261-270. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/hldk. QUERY 17: The different religions received into that state? The first settlers in this country were emigrants from […]
Speech in Congress on Confederation
The absolute necessity of union to the vigor and success of those measures on which we are already entered, is felt and confessed by every one of us, without exception; […]
Letter from Alexander Hamilton to John Jay (1779)
Dear Sir, Col Laurens, who will have the honor of delivering you this letter, is on his way to South Carolina, on a project, which I think, in the present […]
Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Lord Howe (1776)
My Lord, I received safe the Letters your Lordship so kindly forwarded to me, and beg you to accept my Thanks. The Official Dispatches to which you refer me, contain […]
Notes on Debates in Congress
“Notes on Debates, 28 January 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/kuho. On the motion of Mr. Madison the whole proposition was new-modeled as follows;That it is the opinion of Congress that […]
Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (1788)
“To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 8 December 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/v849. Dear Sir This will be handed to you by Mr. Governeur Morris who will embark in a […]