VII. James Madison’s Remarks on a Draft, 8 February 1805
VII. James Madison’s Remarks on a Draft
[8 Feb. 1805]
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| + | “thro’ the transactions of a portion of our Citizens whose intelligence & arrangements best shield them agst the abuses, as well as inconveniences incident to the collection” |
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| Religion— | “as religious exercises, could therefore be neither controuled nor prescribed by us. They have accordingly been left as the Constitution found them, under the direction & discipline acknowledged within the several States” |
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| “who feeling themselves in the present order of things and fearing to become nothing in any other, inculcate a blind1 attachment to the customs of their fathers in opposition to every light & example which wd. conduct them into a more improved State of existence. But the day I hope is not2 distant when their prejudices will yield to their true interests & they will take their stand &c | |
| press— | strike out from “their own affairs” |
| last page— | alter to—“views become manifest to them |
RC (DLC); entirely in Madison’s hand; undated; endorsed by TJ as received from the State Department on 8 Feb. 1805 and “inaugural” and so recorded in SJL.
1. Madison here canceled “& stedfast.” He first wrote “attachment to the habits & traditions.”
2. Madison here canceled “far.”