James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and Their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations

by Scott, James Brown; Madison, James

• ISBN13: 9781584771647
• ISBN10: 158477164X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Ltd

Table of Contents

QUOTATIONS FROM WOODROW WILSON	vi
PREFACE	vii
JAMES MADISON-TABULA VITAE	xv
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE NOTES	xvii
THE COLOSSAL TASK	1	(12)
A significant record of a significant event	1	(2)
Scope of this inquiry	3	(1)
Mr. Madison and his qualifications	4	(1)
Mr. Madison's own evidence	5	(2)
His infinite patience and accuracy	7	(6)
ORIGIN OF THE CONFERENCE	13	(6)
The prevailing anxiety	13	(1)
Specific difficulties	14	(2)
Alternatives	16	(1)
The regulation of commerce	17	(1)
Meeting at Alexandria	17	(1)
At Annapolis	18	(1)
Call of the Convention	19	(1)
ACCOMPLISHING THE IMPOSSIBLE	19	(5)
The impossible task	20	(1)
President and Secretary	21	(1)
Credentials	22	(1)
Committee on rules and orders	22	(1)
Vote by States	22	(1)
Election of committees by ballot	23	(1)
Significance for Society of Nations	23	(1)
GENERAL INTERESTS	24	(14)
The more serious problems presented by the Articles of Confederation	24	(1)
Impotence of the central authority	25	(2)
Obvious reforms needed	27	(2)
The bold decision	29	(2)
Equality of States	31	(1)
Large and small States	32	(1)
The basis for renunciation	33	(1)
"Safe"	34	(1)
Committee on "Compromise"	35	(1)
The two extremes	36	(1)
The compromise on representation	36	(2)
LOCAL INTERESTS	38	(6)
Slaves	38	(2)
The commercial motive	40	(2)
Again a compromise	42	(2)
LEGISLATURE, EXECUTIVE, JUDICIARY	44	(2)
INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STATES OF THE UNION	46	(5)
Nation or Union of States	46	(1)
Relation of States to the Union	47	(1)
"The People"	48	(1)
Two sovereignties and their relation	49	(1)
The Supreme Law	49	(2)
THE SOCIETY OF NATIONS AND THE UNION OF STATES	51	(11)
A court	51	(1)
Plan to coerce States rejected	51	(1)
Coercion for individuals only	52	(2)
Basis of the Supreme Law	54	(3)
Each State with two constitutions	57	(1)
Supreme Law of both States and Union	58	(1)
Revision	59	(1)
Constitutionality	59	(1)
Amendments	59	(1)
Secession	59	(1)
Admission of new States	60	(2)
RELATION OF JUSTICIABLE TO POLITICAL QUESTIONS 61
The unconstitutionality of an act	62	(4)
Difference between judicial and political cases	66	(1)
How political questions may become judicial	67	(1)
Mr. Justice Baldwin	68	(2)
A lesson for the Society of Nations	70	(2)
Jurisdiction by consent and delegated authority	72	(1)
A light unto the world	73	(3)
The Judiciary in the Constitutional Convention	76	(3)
Again the international significance	79	(1)
The more perfect Union or Society of Nations	80	(2)
Certain parallels	82	(1)
Neither national nor federal	83	(1)
The preamble and its limitations	84	(2)
Difficulty overcome in Preamble	86	(2)
Lines between the States	88	(1)
THE AMERICAN UNION INTERPRETED BY THE SUPREME COURT	89	(5)
Object of the Constitution	89	(5)
IN CONCLUSION	94	(7)
The Rising Sun	96	(1)
The Convention, for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes	97	(1)
Benjamin Franklin's forecast	98	(1)
Madison and the liberty of the world	99	(2)
APPENDIX	101
The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776	103	(7)
The Articles of Confederation, 1776-1781	110	(14)
The Constitution of the United States, 1787	124