[Don W]

Of possible interest to the Federalist Papers pinglist?

[Huck]

Madison was Hamilton’s bitch.

[cripplecreek]

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

- James Madison

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

- James Madison

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

- James Madison

[mrsmith]

Apt!

[definitelynotaliberal]

ping

[Oratam]

Thanks for the Wee Jemmy ping

[Sherman Logan]

Thanks for posting. Great article.

Madison was a quite ineffectual president, and by far the worst American war president. With any other American wartime president in control, we would have conquered Canada.

Whether we would have been able to keep it is another question entirely, of course.

The author’s question of whether a more powerful American navy might have prevented the War of 1812 is unreasonable, IMO. The US of the time was totally unable to field a navy capable of challenging the Royal Navy for command of the seas. And an attempt to do so would in all likelihood have irritated the Brits so much the war would have become more inevitable, not less. As the German attempt to challenge the RN at sea was a major cause of WWI.

A navy that is good, but not large enough to actually win is both expensive and pretty much a waste of time.

[Carry_Okie]

Patrick Henry, doubting his fellow Virginian’s ratifying-convention assurances that the newly strengthened federal government would never abolish slavery, made sure Madison didn’t become one of the state’s senators, declaring his election would produce “rivulets of blood throughout the land.”

To suggest that this is the sum of Henry's concerns is deliberate misdirection by character assassination.

[tentmaker]

bookmark

[kevkrom]

Bookmark for later reading. Very interesting, but lengthy.

Madison’s warnings about the Bill of Rights and perpetual debt seem to have been spot-on, though.

[Pan_Yan]

Nor did Madison like Hamilton’s idea of a funded debt, perpetually rolled over, never extinguished, and requiring taxation to service it. Such a market in government paper called into being a class of financiers and investors, dependent on the Treasury and prone to corruption. Madison feared that “the stockjobbers will become the praetorian band of the Government,” he told Jefferson, “at once its tool and its tyrant.” Indeed, the Treasury faction could gain enough political might to carry all before it.

Why does that sound so familiar?

[StonyBurk]

One aspect suggests that -without naming Madison-Thomas Cooley
writing the General Principles of Constitutional Law,Little Brown and Company ,1880 did not understand Madison and the
14th Amendment as the author of this seems to consider such.