James Madison: Champion of Liberty and JusticeUW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press, 2006 - 110 páginas The elegant prose of America's Revolutionary generation is found in this series of chapbook Titles include: |
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... hoped to enact the revised code of laws drafted by Thomas Jefferson , George Wythe , and Edmund Pendleton in 1777-79 . To ensure success , Madison sought the support of Patrick Henry , but soon it was obvious that Henry would oppose ...
... hoped , " he said , " that by expressing a national disapprobation of this trade , we may destroy it , and save ourselves from reproaches , and our posterity the imbecility ever attendant on a coun- try filled with slaves . " In a rare ...
... hoped that Virginia would lead the way , and , during the October 1785 session , he worked to have the legislature adopt an amendment to the Articles of Confederation that would give Congress the power to regulate commerce . When that ...
... hoped to discover the weaknesses of confederacies and how to guard against these fatal flaws . He convinced himself that confederacies were frag- ile and that they tended either to dissolve or become impotent when they lacked a central ...
... hoped that neither the discussion in Congress nor Lee's amendments would become known by the public . They agreed to transmit the Constitution to the states without endorsement if Antifederalists would agree to strike any dissent ...