Footnotes and Further Reading

James Madison

1751-1836
Footnote # 1

Jack Rakove, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, 3d. ed. (NY: Pearson Longman, 2007), 12-21. An excellent timeline of Madison's life may be found on the Library of Congress as part of the on-line collection of the James Madison Papers at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/mjmtime1.html

Footnote # 2

Ibid, 25-26; 40-41.

Footnote # 3

Worthington C. Ford et al., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, (Washington, D.C., 1904-37), 74

Footnote # 4

James Madison to George Washington, November 8, 1786, General Correspondence, James Madison Papers, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.

Footnote # 5

James Madison to George Washington, November 8, 1786, Madison Papers.

Footnote # 6

James Madison to George Washington, December 7, 1786, Madison Papers.

Footnote # 7

James Madison to Edmund Randolph, Mar. 11, 1787, Madison Papers.

Footnote # 8

Ibid.; James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, March 19, 1787, Madison Papers.

Footnote # 9

Ibid.

Footnote # 10

James Madison, "Vices of the Political System," in Jack P. Greene, ed., Colonies to Nation, 1763-1789: A Documentary History of the American Revolution (New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1975), 514-19.

Footnote # 11

James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, February 25, 1787, Madison Papers.

Footnote # 12

Rhode Island did not send delegates to the Philadelphia Convention.

Footnote # 13

Madison's notes are available on-line on the Avalon Project: Documents in in law, history and Diplomacy http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/debcont.asp

Footnote # 14

James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, March 19, 1787, Madison Papers.

Footnote # 15

All the essays were signed with the pseudonym Publius. Madison wrote 28 of the essays, including two of the most famous essays, Federalist 10 and Federalist 51.

Footnote # 16

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, The Federalist Papers, Clinton Rossiter, ed., New York: Penguin Books, 1961.

Footnote # 17

The remaining states swiftly followed, with the exception of Rhode Island, which did not ratify until May, 1790. The a lively account of ratification in Rhode Island, see Irwin J. Polishook, Rhode Island and the Union (Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1969).

Footnote # 18

Bradford, M. E. , Ed., Jonathan Elliot's Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, 5 Vols. (Richmond: James River, 1989-91), 2:176--78

Footnote # 19

Frank Lambert, The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), 228-235; "The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom," in Jack P. Greene, ed., Colonies to Nation, 1763-1789: A Documentary History of the American Revolution (New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1975), 390-92.

Footnote # 20

James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, October 17, 1787, Madison Papers.

Footnote # 21

Ibid.

Footnote # 22

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, March 15, 1789, Madison Papers.

Footnote # 23

Congressional Register, I, 423-37 and Gazette of the US., 10 and 13 June 1789.

Footnote # 24

Ibid

Footnote # 25

Rakove, James Madison, 206.


Further Reading

Gross, Robert A., ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Kaminski, John P. Saladino, Gaspare J., Leffler, Richard, Schoenleber, Charles H. and Margaret A. Hogan eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Ratification of the States. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1986-2007, vol. 4.

Koch, Adrienne. Jefferson and Madison: The Great Collaboration. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950.

Rakove, Jack. James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, 3d. ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.

Richards, Leonard. Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Rossiter, Clinton, ed. The Federalist Papers. New York : Penguin Books, 1961.

Starkey, Marion L. A Little Rebellion. New York, Knopf, 1955.