Essay. Page b. it adopts, in their full extent, the common and stat- B. the proposed Constitution contains, in the body of the instrument, similar equivalent provisions,........... 595 C. a Bill of Rights will be unnecessary, because the People will surrender nothing in the adoption of the proposed Constitution, and the government will be administered by their immediate representatives and servants, .... 598 D. a Bill of Rights would be dangerous, as implying the F. the proposed Constitution itself a Bill of Rights,..... 600 b. "the seat of government will be too remote from many of the States to admit of a proper knowledge, on the c. there is no provision respecting debts due to the United b. the judiciary will furnish the principal additions,.... 605 B. the diminished sessions of the Congress will counter- balance much of the increased expense,............ 605 C. the State legislatures, also, will hold shorter sessions, B. the entire confidence of PUBLIUS in the Essay. Page arguments which B. "that without material alterations the rights and interests of the community cannot be safely confided to it" denied, 610 c. although not perfect, it is upon the whole a good plan,...... 611 B. the precarious state of the country forbids delay for the only ▲ the improbability of assembling a new convention with the same success as that which attended the last,........ 611 B. more easy to obtain amendments subsequent to the adoption 1 Vide letter published in The Port Folio, Vol. IV. No. 20, ante, page xxviii. 2 Vide ante, pages xxvi. xxvii. 3 "I am assured that Numbers 2. 3. 4. 5. & 64 were written by JOHN JAY "Numbers 10. 14. 37 to 49 both Inclusive & 53 by JAMES MADISON Jun"Numbers 18. 19. 20. by Messrs MADISON & HAMILTON jointly. "All the rest by Mr HAMILTON "(-Mr HAMILTON told me that Mr MADISON wrote 48 & 49 or from pa. 101 to 112 of Vol. 2d =)) [In much darker colored ink, and in a different style of the Chancellor's writing :] "NB"I showed the above Mem to General HAMILTON in my office in Albany, & he said it "was correct, seeing the correction above made-" Chancellor KENT'S MS. notes on the first fly-page of his copy of M'LEAN's edition of The Foederalist, now owned by his grandson, JAMES KENT, Esq., of Fishkill Landing, N. Y. 4 Copied from the original MS. notes in Mr. MADISON's copy of TIEBOUT's edition of The Federalist, by WILLIAM Q. FORCE, for his father, General PETER FORCE, of Washington, D. C. 5 Vide letter of BENJAMIN RUSH, Esq., ante, pages xxxix to xlv. Copied from the original MS. notes in Mr. AMES's copy of M'LEAN's edition of The Fæderalist, now owned by his grandson-in-law, FRANCIS HOWLAND, Esq., of Englewood, N. J. 7" Memr I have no doubt Mr JAY wrote No 64 on the Treaty Power- He made a "Speech on that Subject in the N Y Convention, & I am told he says he wrote it - I suspect therefore from internal Ev. the above to be the correct List, & not the one on "the opposide Page-" Chancellor KENT's MS. notes, appended to this list, and in his copy of The Foederalist, before referred to, inserted immediately opposite to the memorandum approved by General HAMILTON and copied into Note 3. 8 From the original MS. notes in Mr. JEFFERS N's copy of M'LEAN's edition of The Foreralist, now in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. 9 From the understanding in Mr. JAY's family, from Chancellor KENT's MS. notes, and from the biographical sketch of Mr. Jár's life in DELAPLAINE'S Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished American Characters. |