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Secret Journals of Congress, (Domestic Affairs,) 12th July 1776, vol. 1, p. 290.

Secret Journals of Congress, (Domestic Affairs,) vol. 1, pp. 290 to 367.

Secret Journals of Congress, (Domestic Affairs,) vol. 1, p. 448.

Public Journals of Congress, vol. 3, p. 586.

Secret Journals of Congress, 20th August, 1776 to 15th November, 1777, vol. 1, pp. 304 to 349; 17th November, 1777, vol. 1, p. 362; 22d June to 25th June, 1778, vol. 1, pp. 368 to 386; vol. 1, pp. 421 to 446.

Public Journals of Congress, 10th July, 1778, vol. 2, p. 619.

Story's Commentaries on the Constitution, vol. 1, pp. 214, 228.

For the proceedings of the Legislature of Virginia, 30th November, 1785; 1st December, 1785; 21st January, 1786; see Elliot's Debates, vol. 1, pp. 113, 116. The last resolution, as there given, varies somewhat from that quoted by Mr. Madison.

Journal of the Senate of Maryland, November, 1784, p. 42.

Journal of the House of Delegates of Maryland, November, 1784, pp. 103, 105, 107, 113, 121, 125; November, 1785, pp. 7, 10, 11, and 20.

Washington's Writings, 18th January, 1784, vol. 9, p. 11.

Life of John Jay, 16th March, 1786, vol. 1, p. 242.

Marshall's Life of Washington, vol. 5, p. 90.

Story's Commentaries on the Constitution, vol. 1, p. 252.

Laws of the United States, (edition of 1815,) vol. 1, p. 55.

Elliot's Debates, vol. 1, p. 116.

Journal of the Senate of New York, 5th May, 1786, p. 103.

Minutes of the Assembly of Pennsylvania, 21st March, 1786, p. 227.

Journal of the Assembly of New Jersey, 20th March, 1786, p. 72; 9th November, 1786, p. 98; 20th November, 1786, p. 62; 24th November, 1786, p. 36.

Public Journals of Congress, 15th February, 1786, vol. 4, p. 618.

Journal of the Federal Convention, p. 36.

Journals of the Senate of Virginia, 23d November and 4th December, 1786.

Journals of the House of Delegates of Virginia, 9th November and 4th December, 1786.

"A Dissertation on the Political Union and Constitution of the Thirteen United States of North America, Philadelphia, 1783." This pamphlet was republished in a volume of Political Essays by Pelatiah Webster, Philadelphia, 1791.

See Debates above, p., and references at note 24.

Journal of the Senate of New York, 19th July, 1782, p. 87; 20th July, 1782.

There is a letter of this date to Mr. Madison, though not on the subject here referred to, in the Life of Richard Henry Lee, vol. 2, p. 51. Mr. Lee was elected president of Congress on the 30th November, 1784.

Mr. Webster's proposal was contained in a pamphlet published in the winter of 1784-5, entitled, "Sketches of American Policy;" Life of Noah Webster, in the National Portrait Gallery, p. 4.

Public Journals of Congress, 15th February, 1786, vol. 4, p. 618; 3d March, 1786, vol. 4, p. 621; 14th August, 1786, vol. 4, p. 682; 22d August, 1786, vol. 4, p. 683; 23d October, 1786, vol. 4, p. 715; 21st February, 1787, vol. 4, p. 723.

American Museum, vol. 1, p. 270; vol. 3, p. 554.

Life of John Jay, vol. 1, p. 255.

Story's Commentaries on the Constitution, vol. 1, book 2, chap. 4.

North American Review, vol. 25, p. 249.

See Correspondence above, p..

The letter of Mr. Madison to Gen. Washington of 10th April, 1787, will be found in Washington's Writings, vol. 9, p. 516, Appendix, No. III.

See Debates below, 8th June, 1787, p. ; 19th June, 1787, p. ; 17th July, 1787, p. ; 23d August, 1787, p..

Journal of the Federal Convention, 31st May, 1787, p. 87; 8th June, 1787, p. 107; 19th June, 1787, p. 136; 17th July, 1787, p. 183; 23d August, 1787, p. 281.

North American Review, vol. 25, pp. 264, 265, 266.

See Correspondence above, p. ; Debates below, p..

Journal of the Federal Convention, p. 33.

Laws of Delaware, 3d February, 1787, vol. 1, p. 892.

See Yates's Minutes, 30th May, 1787; Elliot, vol. 1, p. 391.

It is stated in Yates's Minutes, that the state of New Jersey was not represented in the Convention till this day No vote of that state appears previously on the Journal.

See Debates below. 2d June, 1787, p. ; 21st June, 1787, p. ; 7th August, 1787, p. ; 8th August, 1787, p..

Jefferson's Works, vol. 2, p. 273.

See Debates below, 2d June, 1787, p. ; 7th June, 1787, p..

See Debates below, 4th June, 1787, p. ; 13th June, 1787, p. ; 15th June, 1787. p. ; 16th June, 1787, p. ; 24th August, 1787, p..

Jefferson's Works, vol. 4, pp. 160, 161.

The Federalist, No. 70.

Debates in the Convention of North Carolina, 26th July, 1788, Elliot, vol. 4, p. 104.

See Debates below, 13th June, 1787, p. ; 19th July, 1787. p. ; 24th July, 1787, p. ; 26th July, 1787, p. ; 6th August, 1787, p. 380; 4th September, 1787, p. ; 6th September, 1787, p..

The Federalist, No. 71.

Story's Commentaries on the Constitution, vol. 3, p. 291.

See Debates below, 13th June, 1787, p. ; 19th July, 1787, p. ; 24th July, 1787, p. ; 6th