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 […]
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 […]
Notes on Debates in Congress
“Notes on Debates, 21 February 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/qh13. Speech in the Continental Congress on Revenue Mr. Mercer made some remarks tending to a reconsideration of the act declaring […]
Letter from Charles Inglis to the Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (1776)
I have the Pleasure to assure you that all the Society’s Missionaries, without excepting one, in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, &, so far as I can learn, in the […]
Response to British Peace Proposals
In CONGRESS. June 13, 1778. An express arrived with a letter of the 11th, from General Washington, which was read, and a packet in which it was inclosed, together with […]
Letter from Stephen de Lancey to Cornelia Barclay De Lancey (1779)
SAVANNAH JANY 14TH 1779 Long have I wish’d my dearest Cornelia for the Departure of a Vessel from this Place that I might communicate to you the glad Tidings of […]
Royal Gazette: “Our Last Will and Testament”
IN the NAME of DEVIL AMEN. WE the Congress of America in Congress assembled, being weak in body, low in credit, and poor in estate, but rich, high, and strong, […]