James Madison
by Sydney Howard Gay
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About this eBook
- Author
- Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Carla Foust, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861)
- Subject
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1809-1817
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 28992
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28992
- Release Date
- May 29, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber's note — JAMES MADISON
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.JAMES MADISON
- 5.CHAPTER I — THE VIRGINIA MADISONS
- 6.CHAPTER II — THE YOUNG STATESMAN
- 7.CHAPTER III — IN CONGRESS
- 8.CHAPTER IV — IN THE STATE ASSEMBLY
- 9.CHAPTER V — IN THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
- 10.CHAPTER VI — PUBLIC DISTURBANCES AND ANXIETIES
- 11.CHAPTER VII — THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — "THE COMPROMISES"
- 13.CHAPTER IX — ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION
- 14.CHAPTER X — THE FIRST CONGRESS
- 15.CHAPTER XI — NATIONAL FINANCES—SLAVERY
- 16.CHAPTER XII — FEDERALISTS AND REPUBLICANS
- 17.CHAPTER XIII — FRENCH POLITICS
- 18.CHAPTER XIV — HIS LATEST YEARS IN CONGRESS
- 19.CHAPTER XV — AT HOME—"RESOLUTIONS OF '98 AND '99"
- 20.CHAPTER XVI — SECRETARY OF STATE
- 21.CHAPTER XVII — THE EMBARGO
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII — MADISON AS PRESIDENT
- 23.CHAPTER XIX — WAR WITH ENGLAND
- 24.CHAPTER XX — CONCLUSION — FOOTNOTES:
- 25.INDEX
- 26.INDEX — Transcriber's note
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