The Papers of James Madison, Volume 7: 3 May 1783-29 February 1784University of Chicago Press, 1962 - 522 sider During the first six of the ten months covered by this volume, Madison completed his initial period of service as a delegate from Virginia in the Congress of the Confederation. His correspondence with Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Randolph, as well as his other papers, reveal the mounting difficulties besetting him and his fellow nationalists who sought to preserve a union among the thirteen states. The major problems, which included demobilizing the discontented army, obtaining public revenue, funding the Confederation debt, pressing the British to evacuate their military posts, enforcing the preliminary articles of peace, creating a public domain in the West, locating a provisional or permanent capital of the Confederation, and negotiating commercial treaties with European powers, fostered sectionalism, factionalism, and an emphasis upon state sovereignty. As a prominent member of Congress, Madison sought legislative and constitutional remedies for this menacing divisiveness. To him the maintenence of the new nation embodied "the greatest trust ever confided to a political society," for it was "the last and fairest experiment in favor of the rights of human nature." Early in December, after an absence of over three years, Madison returned to Montpelier, his father's estate. There during the winter of 1783-1784, he studied law, renewed old friendships, and canvassed the residents of Orange County for support of his candidacy for election to the House of Delegates of the Virginia General Assembly. maintenance |
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ILLUSTRATIONS | xv |
EDITORIAL METHOD | xxix |
FROM JACQUELIN AMBLER 3 | 4 |
FROM EDMUND PENDLETON 4 MAY | 13 |
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON 6 MAY | 19 |
NOTES ON DEBATES 8 MAY | 28 |
FROM JACQUELIN AMBLER 10 MAY | 35 |
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON 13 | 41 |
VIRGINIA DELEGATES TO BENJAMIN HARRISON 26 JULY | 246 |
75 | 249 |
FROM JOSEPH JONES 28 JULY | 253 |
FROM JOSEPH JONES 4 AUGUST | 261 |
FROM BENJAMIN HAWKINS 9 AUGUST | 267 |
TO EDMUND RANDOLPH 12 AUGUST | 273 |
BENJAMIN HARRISON TO VIRGINIA DELEGATES 15 AUGUST | 279 |
FROM EDMUND RANDOLPH 23 AUGUST | 287 |
NOTES ON DEBATES 19 | 57 |
NOTES ON DEBATES 2122 | 67 |
FROM EDMUND RANDOLPH 24 | 73 |
NOTES ON DEBATES 26 | 83 |
NOTES ON DEBATES 27 | 90 |
BENJAMIN HARRISON TO VIRGINIA DELEGATES 31 | 101 |
FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON I JUNE | 103 |
NOTES ON DEBATES 6 JUNE | 116 |
TO EDMUND RANDOLPH 10 JUNE | 133 |
FROM EDMUND RANDOLPH 14 JUNE | 147 |
INSTRUCTION TO VIRGINIA DELEGATES in re FORTIFICATIONS 17 JUNE | 162 |
NOTES ON DEBATES 21 JUNE | 177 |
FROM JOSEPH JONES 21 JUNE | 183 |
VIRGINIA DELEGATES TO BENJAMIN HARRISON 24 JUNE | 189 |
FROM JOSEPH JONES 28 JUNE | 197 |
FROM ALEXANDER HAMILTON 29 JUNENOTE ON LETTER | 204 |
FROM JACQUELIN AMBLER I JUNE | 210 |
VIRGINIA DELEGATES TO BENJAMIN HARRISON 5 JULY | 211 |
TO EDMUND RANDOLPH 8 JULY | 217 |
70 | 221 |
FROM JOSEPH JONES 14 JULY | 223 |
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON 17 JULY | 229 |
FROM ROBERT R LIVINGSTON 19 JULY | 235 |
72 | 238 |
REPORT ON TREATY WITH SWEDEN 24 JULY | 240 |
TO EDMUND RANDOLPH 21 JULY | 242 |
TO JAMES MADISON SR 30 AUGUST | 294 |
FROM EDMUND PENDLETON I SEPTEMBER | 300 |
TO EDMUND RANDOLPH 8 SEPTEMBER | 307 |
BENJAMIN HARRISON TO VIRGINIA DELEGATES 13 SEPTEMBER | 313 |
NOTE ON THE NORTHAMERICAN NO I AND NO 2 17 SEPTEMBER | 319 |
81 | 337 |
91 | 346 |
REPORT ON MEMORIAL OF MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL COURT | 347 |
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON 20 SEPTEMBER | 353 |
BENJAMIN HARRISON TO VIRGINIA DELEGATES 27 SEPTEMBER | 360 |
༠༠ཟླ༦༠ | 364 |
BENJAMIN HARRISON TO VIRGINIA DELEGATES 3 OCTOBER | 366 |
94 | 371 |
BENJAMIN HARRISON TO VIRGINIA DELEGATES 10 OCTOBER | 372 |
NOTES ON CONGRESS PLACE OF RESIDENCE ca 14 OCTOBER | 378 |
BENJAMIN HARRISON TO VIRGINIA DELEGATES 18 OCTOBER | 385 |
VIRGINIA DELEGATES TO BENJAMIN HARRISON I NOVEMBER FIRST | 391 |
95 | 395 |
VIRGINIA DELEGATES TO BENJAMIN HARRISON I NOVEMBER SECOND | 397 |
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON 10 DECEMBER | 403 |
FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON 1 JANUARY | 411 |
FROM EDMUND RANDOLPH 27 JANUARY | 417 |
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