[337] Address of the Minority, Jan. 22, 1799, Journal of the House of Delegates of Virginia, 1798-99, 90-95.
[338] Jay to Iredell, Sept. 15, 1790, enclosing statement to President Washington, Iredell: McRee, 293-96; and see letter of Jay to Washington, Aug. 8, 1793, Jay: Johnston, iii, 488-89.
[339] See supra, 40, footnote 1.
[340] Wharton: State Trials, 715-18.
[341] Jefferson to Meusnier, Jan. 24, 1786, Works: Ford, v, 31-32.
[342] Jefferson to Meusnier, Jan. 24, 1786, Works: Ford, v, 14-15. (Italics the author's.)
[343] For instance, the Legislature of Rhode Island formally declared Independence almost two months before Congress adopted the pronouncement penned by Jefferson, and Jefferson used many of the very words of the tiny colony's defiance. In her Declaration of Independence in May, 1776, Virginia set forth most of the reasons stated by Jefferson a few weeks later in similar language.
[344] For these cases and references to studies of the question of judicial supremacy over legislation, see Appendix C.
[345] See vol. i, 323, of this work.
[346] See Records Fed. Conv.: Farrand, i, Introduction, xii.