James Madison and Liberty
ABSTRACT
Madison has regularly been a part of many Liberty Fund colloquia, but he has normally been paired with his more intellectually flamboyant friend, Thomas Jefferson. We held these conferences once again with some slight changes to the readings.
READING LIST
From Liberty Fund
The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793–1794
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By Alexander Hamilton (Pacificus) and James Madison (Helvidius)
Edited and with an Introduction by Morton J. Frisch
The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793–1794 matched Hamilton and Madison in the first chapter of an enduring discussion about the proper roles of executive and legislative branches in the conduct of American foreign policy. Ignited by President Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation of 1793, which annulled the eleventh article of America’s treaty with…
Additional Readings
Belz, Herman, eds. The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2000.http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1557 (accessed 11/30/09).
Frohnen, Bruce P., eds. The American Republic: Primary Sources. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2002.
Meyers, Marvin, eds. The Mind of the Founder: Sources of the Political Thought of James Madison, Revised Edition, Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 1981.
Jefferson, Thomas. "Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 20 December 1787." Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University. http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=306 (August 26, 2009).
Jefferson, Thomas. "Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 31 July 1788." Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University. http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=998 (August 26, 2009).
Jefferson, Thomas. "Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 March 1789." Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University. http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=993 (August 26, 2009).
Madison, James. “James Madison to Richard Peters, 19 August 1789.” The Constitutional Sources Project. http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-12-02-0230#print_view (August 26, 2009).
Madison, James. “Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, Thursday, September 6.” TeachingAmericanHistory.org. http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/debates/0906.html (November 17, 2009).