Considered to be the "Father of the Constitution", he was the principal author of the document. Madison was the last founding father to die. was an American politician and the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Having just directed the British Quarterly Review, now sent me, to be discontinued, and the North American Review substituted, with the back numbers for the last year, I may soon.įor James Madison, Episcopal Bishop and president of the College of William & Mary, see. I ought to have premised to any remarks on the controversy into which your brother has been drawn, that I have never seen either the Review in which his book is criticised, or the pamphlet in which it is combated. The acknowledgment ought to banish him as "authority" from every prize Court in the world.
These are not his words, but do him, I believe, no injustice. After setting out with the lofty profession of abiding by the same rules of public law wheu sitting in London as if a Judge at Stockholm, he was not ashamed to acknowledge that, in expounding that law, he should regard the Orders in Council of his own Government as his authoritative guide. I must add that it detracted much, also, from the admiration I had been led to bestow on the distinguished Judge of the High Court of Admiralty not from any discovery of defect in his intellectual powers or judicial eloquence, but on account of his shifting decisions and abandonment of his independent principles. The pamphlet went into a pretty ample and minute investigation of the subject, which terminated in a confirmed conviction, both of the heresy of the doctrine, and of the enormity of the practice growing out of it. It was undertaken in consequence of the heavy losses and complaints of merchants in all our large sea ports under the predatory operation of the extended rule of 1756. Monroe, was a stout pamphlet drawn up by the Secretary of State. "The Examination of the subject," Ac., referred to in the letter of instruction as being forwarded to Mr. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
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