James Madison
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Giants of America
The Founding Fathers
James Madision
The Home of James Madison
SYDNEY HOWARD GAY
ARLINGTON HOUSE New Rochelle, N.Y.
From the painting by Sully in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Autograph from a MS. in the New York Public Library, Lenox Building.
The vignette of Montpelier, Madison's home at Montpelier, Va., is from a photograph.
From the original painting by Gilbert Stuart in the possession of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, D. D., LL. D., Charleston, S. C.
Sydney Howard Gay
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Transcriber's note
JAMES MADISON
THE VIRGINIA MADISONS
THE YOUNG STATESMAN
IN CONGRESS
IN THE STATE ASSEMBLY
IN THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
PUBLIC DISTURBANCES AND ANXIETIES
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
"THE COMPROMISES"
ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION
THE FIRST CONGRESS
NATIONAL FINANCES—SLAVERY
FEDERALISTS AND REPUBLICANS
FRENCH POLITICS
HIS LATEST YEARS IN CONGRESS
AT HOME—"RESOLUTIONS OF '98 AND '99"
SECRETARY OF STATE
THE EMBARGO
MADISON AS PRESIDENT
WAR WITH ENGLAND
CONCLUSION
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