361Low Postage for Newspapers, [9 January] 1792 (Madison Papers)
On 9 January the post office bill was read a third time. Murray moved to recommit and amend it by...
362Inquiry into General St. Clair’s Defeat, [28 March] 1792 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison moved, “that it be an instruction to the committee of seven, appointed yesterday, to...
363For the National Gazette, 20 December 1792 (Madison Papers)
Republican .—The people themselves. The sacred trust can be no where so safe as in the hands most...
364Memorandum on Specie, post 12 January 1792 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Abstract. Post 12 January 1792. Calculates the standard alloy and pure silver content of the...
365For the National Gazette, 18 January 1792 (Madison Papers)
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example and France...
366Inquiry into General St. Clair’s Defeat, [27 March] 1792 (Madison Papers)
Giles moved that the House request the president to conduct an inquiry into the causes of the...
367Memorandum on a Discussion of the President’s Retirement, 5 May 1792 (Madison Papers)
☞ Read the pages as numbered 1–2 &c Substance of a Conversation with the President 5th. May....
368For the National Gazette, 31 March 1792 (Madison Papers)
Not those who charge others with not being its friends, whilst their own conduct is wantonly...
369Settlement of the State Claims, [10 January] 1793 (Madison Papers)
On 12 December 1792 FitzSimons offered four resolutions authorizing “a loan to the amount of the...
370For the National Gazette, [ca. 23 January] 1792 (Madison Papers)
In every political society, parties are unavoidable. A difference of interests, real or supposed,...
371Notes on Law Cases, [ca. 4 November] 1792 (Madison Papers)
A. brought trespass on case vs. B. damages laid at £50 B. instead of expected offsetts, brought...
372For the National Gazette, 28 January 1792 (Madison Papers)
The boasted equilibrium of this government, (so far as it is a reality) is maintained less by the...
373Notes on Emigration, [ante 19 November] 1791 (Madison Papers)
Emigration Both in the vegetable and animal Kingdoms every species derives from nature a...
374Bill for Protection of the Frontiers, [25 January] 1792 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison, from the committee appointed, presented a bill for making further and more effectual...
375Notes on William Loughton Smith’s Politicks and Views, [ca. 4 November] 1792 (Madison Papers)
Outline of Answer The pamphlet a continuation of the attack on republican principles commenced by...
376Inquiry into General St. Clair’s Defeat, [13 November] 1792 (Madison Papers)
On 7 November the House referred to the Committee of the Whole the report on the defeat of...
377Indian Lands, [17 January] 1793 (Madison Papers)
On 14 November 1792 the House appointed a committee headed by White to prepare a bill “to...
378For the National Gazette, [ca. 19 December] 1791 (Madison Papers)
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. As...
379Memorandum on New Orleans, [ca. 1 March] 1792 (Madison Papers)
Information of Phil. Barbour, who resided long in West Florida After N. Orleans fell into the...
380For the National Gazette, 3 March 1792 (Madison Papers)
A perfect theory on this subject would be useful, not because it could be reduced to practice by...
381Inquiry into General St. Clair’s Defeat, [14 November] 1792 (Madison Papers)
The Committee of the Whole took up the report of the select committee’s inquiry into the causes...
382A Note on the Sources of Madison’s Speeches in the Second Congress, 22 November 1791–1 March 1793 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
One result of JM’s reduced role as a congressional leader after 1791 was that he spoke less...
383Settlement of the State Claims, [21 January] 1793 (Madison Papers)
FitzSimons reported the bill authorizing “a Loan in the certificates or notes of such States as...
384Settlement of the State Claims, [28 January] 1793 (Madison Papers)
The bill providing for a final settlement of state accounts with the United States was read a...
385For the National Gazette, 4 February 1792 (Madison Papers)
Power being found by universal experience liable to abuses, a distribution of it into separate...
386Resolution on the French Constitution, [10 March] 1792 (Madison Papers)
The president forwarded to the House a letter from Louis XVI announcing that the French king had...
387Public Debt, [19 November] 1792 (Madison Papers)
The Committee of the Whole took up the section of the president’s speech dealing with reduction...
388Bounty Payments for Cod Fisheries, [6 February] 1792 (Madison Papers)
On 3 February 1792 the Committee of the Whole began consideration of the bill for encouragement...
389For the National Gazette, 22 September 1792 (Madison Papers)
As it is the business of the contemplative statesman to trace the history of parties in a free...
390The Contested Georgia Election, [19 March] 1792 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison replied generally to all the reasoning of the gentlemen who had gone before him in...