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Mr. MADISON—continued—
A weak System produced the Project to give up the Mississippi, which will never be again revived in Congress, |
348 |
Election of Senators and Representatives, |
366 |
Congressional Compensation, how determined, and why left open to be fixed by Law, |
369 to 373 |
Reasons why Members of Congress should accept Appointments, |
372 |
Money Bills; Senate; Convention decides on confining their Origin to the House, |
376 |
Militia to be employed rather than a standing Army, |
378 |
Power to arm the Militia, &c., is concurrent between the General Government and the States, |
381 |
Posse insufficient; then the Militia to be called, |
384 |
Meaning of "Purse and Sword," 393. Anxiety for a well-regulated republican Government, &c., |
394 |
Situation of the Country, 399. Responsibility; Political Experiment must be made, |
399 |
Elections; Objections explained; the President may adjourn the Senate, if they attempt to prevent an Adjournment of the House, |
407 |
General Government should command the national Forces, |
413 |
Militia Abuses; may quell Smugglers, |
413 |
British Militia quell Riots; Virginia Militia, |
414 |
Replies to Henry on the Militia Power, |
424 |
Ten Miles Square; without exclusive Legislation there. Congress could not be secure from Insults, |
432 |
Legislature not safe, when subject to the paramount Authority of a Part of the Community, |
438 |
Slaves; Condition of the South to enter the Union; temporary Permission to carry on the Slave Trade; Congress cannot tax Slaves amounting to Manumission; Slave Property secured; Reclamation of Slaves; General Government has no Power to interpose in Slave Property, |
453 |
Southern States satisfied with the Slave Compromise, |
458 |
Publication of Receipts and Expenditures, |
460 |
Validity of Claims,—nor Paper Money not affected, |
471 to 473 |
Judiciary, |
522 |
Value of the Continental Debt; Claims neither increased nor diminished, |
480 |
Importing and exporting States, |
483 |
Propriety in choosing the President from the People at large; Provision in Case of his Death, |
487 |
Presidential Election, Difficulty of, in the Federal Convention, in pointing out the Mode; Objections, |
494 |
Pardoning Power, |
498 |
Treaties; paramount Law; cannot dismember the Union by them, |
500 |
To regulate Commerce; external; Responsibility compared with that of the British Government, |
514 |
Judiciary, Objections to, refuted, |
530 |
Executive, peculiar Difficulty in prescribing its Duties, &c., |
531 |
Treaties; Judiciary to expound them, |
532 |
Supreme Court; general View; Jurisdiction, 532. Cognizance; Disputes between a foreign State and one of our States; Organization; Appellate Jurisdiction, &c., |
533 |
Judiciary; Compensation; Trial by Jury, 537. Vexatious Appeals may be remedied by Congress; Confidence better than Money, |
538 |
Flattering Prospects of free America; Gratification not to be looked for in all the States; awful Importance of Decision, 616. Difficulties in preparing the Constitution; Ratification of eight States a Failure, 618. New York Opposition; more than those Rights enumerated by Wythe, 619. Amendments, 620. Emancipation of Slaves; Constitution does not contemplate to strip their Owners of their Property; Claims of Maryland for Western Lands, |
622 |
Amendments, previous and subsequent, |
629 |
227 |