391Public Debt, [21 November] 1792 (Madison Papers)
The House debated several motions that would have avoided a direct reference to the secretary of...
392Appropriation for Operating the Federal Government, [2 December] 1791 (Madison Papers)
In Committee of the Whole, Parker of the Virginia delegation requested an examination of the...
393For the National Gazette, 3 December 1791 (Madison Papers)
Much has been said, and not without reason, against a consolidation of the States into one...
394For the National Gazette, 31 December 1791 (Madison Papers)
In monarchies there is a two fold danger—1st, That the eyes of a good prince cannot see all that...
395Notes on Documents from the Secretary of the Treasury, ca. 15–19 February 1793 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Abstract. Ca. 15–19 February 1793. A summary outline of the official documents and letters that...
396Design of Coinage, [24 March] 1792 (Madison Papers)
The Senate passed a bill establishing the mint which included a provision for displaying an image...
397Advice to the President, [2 March] 1793 (Madison Papers)
The President having some doubts with respect to the “Act for extending the time for receiving on...
398Post Office and Post Roads, [7 December] 1791 (Madison Papers)
In Committee of the Whole on 6 December Sedgwick had moved to delete from the post office bill...
399Preliminary Draft of an Essay on Natural Order, [ca. 10 November] 1791 (Madison Papers)
Symmetry of Nature The planetary system, the greatest portion of the Universe, as yet brought...
400Memorandum by Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1793 (Madison Papers)
Qu. 1? What sacrifice may be made to retain mr Johnson in the office of Commissioner for the...
401Deed of Sale, 8 July 1792 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Abstract. 8 July 1792, Orange County, Virginia. Indenture by which John Lee and his wife...
402For the National Gazette, 18 February 1792 (Madison Papers)
No Government is perhaps reducible to a sole principle of operation. Where the theory approaches...
403For the National Gazette, 27 March 1792 (Madison Papers)
This term in its particular application means “that dominion which one man claims and exercises...
404Deed of Sale, 15 October 1792 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Abstract. 15 October 1792. John Taliaferro Brooke, having purchased lot 127 in Fredericksburg,...
405For Dunlap’s American Daily Advertiser, [20 October] 1792 (Madison Papers)
The dispensation of the clerkship of foreign correspondence upon Mr. Freneau is the next...
406Repayment of Bank Loan, [26 December] 1792 (Madison Papers)
By the Bank Act of 1791, the federal government paid $2 million, from funds previously borrowed...
407Military Establishment, [5 January] 1793 (Madison Papers)
On 20 December 1792 Steele introduced a resolution to reduce the military establishment and to...
408Account with James Monroe, [14 May] 1792 (Madison Papers)
Price of land 1350 dollars of half 675 dolrs. Add Interest @ 7 PerCt. from Apl. 1786 to Ap....
409Account with the United States, [21 February] 1792 (Madison Papers)
1792 The United States to James Madison Jr. Drs. Feb 21 To attendance in Congress from Jany 16...
410Madison’s National Gazette Essays, 19 November 1791–20 December 1792 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
JM wrote eighteen unsigned essays that Philip Freneau published in the National Gazette between...
411Public Debt, [31 March] 1792 (Madison Papers)
On 1 November 1791 the House requested that the secretary of the treasury prepare a report on the...
412Bill for the Relief of Lewis Garanger, 2 January 1793 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Abstract. 2 January 1793. The bill authorizes the comptroller of the treasury, “in the adjustment...
413Proportional Representation, [24 January] 1792 (Madison Papers)
The Committee of the Whole considered a resolution to break the impasse with the Senate over...
414For the National Gazette, 19 November 1791 (Madison Papers)
Population and Emigration. Both in the vegetable and animal kingdoms, every species derives from...
415Creation of the National Capital, 6 April 1791 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
In the 1790 legislative skirmish over the national capital, JM led the fight for the Potomac...
416Notes for the National Gazette Essays, [ca. 19 December 1791–3 March 1792] (Madison Papers)
Influence of the size of a nation on Government page. 1. ________ of external danger on...
417Proportional Representation, [19 December] 1791 (Madison Papers)
On 9 December 1791 the Senate approved the apportionment bill but amended the ratio of...