The writings of James Madison, comprising his public papers and his private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed. |
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TO JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. |
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TO JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
Sir I have received your letter of the 22 ult:
and enclose such extracts from my notes relating
to the two last days of the Convention, as may fill
in which the proceedings are recorded.
Col. Hamilton did not propose in the Convention
any plan of a Constitution. He had sketched an
outline which he read as part of a speech; observing
that he did not mean it as a proposition, but only
to give a more correct view of his ideas.
Mr. Patterson regularly proposed a plan which
was discussed & voted on.
I do not find the plan of Mr. Charles Pinkney
among my papers.
I tender you, Sir, assurances of my great respect
and esteem.
See ante Vol. III., pp. xv and 209, n. On June 27, 1819, Madison
wrote to Adams again:
I return the list of yeas & nays in the Convention, with the blanks
filled according to your request, as far as I could do it, by tracing the
order of the yeas & nays & their coincidences with those belonging
to successive questions in my papers. In some instances, the yeas
& nays in the list, corresponding with those on more questions than
one, did not designate the particular question on which they were
taken, and of course did not enable me to fill the blanks. In other
instances, as you will find by the paper formerly sent you, there are
questions noted by me, for which the list does not contain yeas & nays.
I have taken the liberty as you will see, of correcting one or two slips
in the original list or in the copy; and I have distinguished the days
on which the several votes passed.—Mad. MSS.
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