Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (1788): Bill of Rights
Source: From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1788 (Founders Online), https://goo.gl/4o765p. For ease of reading, we have added paragraph divisions. . . . The little pamphlet herewith enclosed […]
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (1788): Improving the Constitution
Source: To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 31 July 1788 (Founders Online), https://goo.gl/m1Jz4E. For ease of reading, we have added paragraph divisions. . . . I sincerely rejoice at the […]
Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (1786)
“From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/x347. Since my last which was of the 18th of May I have recd. your very agreeable favor […]
Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (1788)
“To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 24 July 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/k9lb. DEAR SIR Your two last unacknowledged favors were of Decr. 20. and Feby. 6. They were received […]
Cato’s Letters, Number 38
The world has, from time to time, been led into such a long maze of mistakes by those who gained by deceiving, that whoever would instruct mankind, must begin with […]
Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (1788)
“From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/gzda. The proposed Constitution still engrosses the public attention. The elections for the Convention here are but just […]
“If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can”: Madison and Jefferson Discuss the Constitution
“From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://goo.gl/pYa9C3; “From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 March 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/tcqf. Madison to […]
Report of the House Select Committee
MR. VINING, from the Committee of eleven, to whom it was referred to take the subject of AMENDMENTS to the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES, generally into their consideration, and […]
James Wilson’s State House Speech
Source: We have used the version of the speech prepared by the Liberty Fund; James Wilson, Collected Works of James Wilson, edited by Kermit L. Hall and Mark David Hall, (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007), https://goo.gl/Ztymo5. Mr. […]
Virginia Ratifying Convention
Mr. HENRY. Mr. Chairman, I am much obliged to the very worthy gentleman for his encomium. I wish I was possessed with talents, or possessed of any thing that might enable me […]