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title:“James Madison to James Monroe”
authors:James Madison
date written:1817-12-27
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Madison, James. "Letter to James Monroe." The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Vol. 3. Ed. Max Farrand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911. Print.

James Madison to James Monroe (December 27, 1817)

Montpellier, Dec. 27, 1817.
These considerations remind me of the attempts in the Convention to vest in the Judiciary Dept. a qualified negative on Legislative bills. Such a Controul, restricted to Constitutional points, besides giving greater stability & system to the rules of expounding the Instrument, would have precluded the question of a Judiciary annulment of Legislative Acts.

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