The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCCXXI
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCCXXI
ⅭⅭⅭⅩⅩⅠ. James Madison to James Monroe.[1]
Montpellier, Dec. 27, 1817.
These considerations remind me of the attempts in the Convention to vest in the Judiciary Dept. a qualified negative on Legislative bills. Such a Controul, restricted to Constitutional points, besides giving greater stability & system to the rules of expounding the Instrument, would have precluded the question of a Judiciary annulment of Legislative Acts.
- ↑ G. Hunt, Writings of James Madison, Ⅷ, 406.