Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-08-21


TO TIE EDITOR OF TIE ENQUIRER.
Please enquire and let me know by what majority The
LIST charter of the Bank Of the United States passed
in the Senate, and in The H. OF Representatives of the
Congress:
similar inquiry and answer 10 the maorities in
the administrator of Mr. Madison, is desirable when
the I'd charter granted And can you say how
many members of the House of Representatives were
absent and stad away from their seats Intentionally
when the vote taken in this las, case
am Of the opinion, that majority Of the People OF
the United States at period Of their history have
been IN favor OF the exercise OF power by Congress,
which was asked for by Mr. Madison when in the Fede-
raj Convention which framed IT, and which after three
avs ardent debate on the sPecm subject in question,
,cas rejected by that Convention Porer loo danger
aus 10 be resttd in The ConeresS? Are these nearly MIR
Madison own words on this subject: What did Robt
Norris one of the delegates in the Federal Convention
from Pennsylvania say when the proposition Of Nj Ma
Olson 10 give BY additional clause 10 the 9Th section
of the Isl article of the Constitution of the u. States
power to Congress 10 incorporate bank under dis
cusson in that Conve non Quote It you please, what
Yates in his debates of that convention, says this
p.int Quote what Mr. Jefferson somewhere says about
this.
Yop have some jealous correspondent al Washington
you would confer lasting benefit by procuring from
MIR Madisons Journal what he says took place in the
Convention on this vital point This can be readily
done by copying few paragrap hs from the papers soon
10 be published There can be no objection To publish
inc issianter what this Journal says this point.
II has been decided by the Supreme Court that IN all
constitutional discussions, the ming hcn the Con-
siiIuiion adopted must prevail.
Now it appears to me- that if the Journal OF The fede'
raj Convention had been published before the decision
in the case OF McCulloch Steel OF Maryland: and
it these Madison papers had been published (andit no
bert Morriss declaration in the Federal Convention had
been published and generally known. before this decl
sion these circumstances must have had most power.
fol influence in determining what was the meaning OF
the Constitution "wHES it was adopted
Madison says in his Report, p. 30: ln all Inc e0cm'
porary discussions and comments which the constitution
underwent it constantly justified and recommended
on The ground that The pOmrrs not gtrtn 10 me '0ee'h
ment (of the u J ,csre ,oihhsid from 1t
Marshall, 4 Cranc All "But the term having been
odoppd by our Constitution must be understood IN nat
sens, in hieh IL ,cos universally reeeired u WHEN the
Constitution framed 10
Accordna to Madison and Marshall, il is the meaning
of The Constitution wuEs ratf,d and framed, which
ia IN. ,,re one Can il be believed that had The people
known. ,ba, Mr. Madison's proposition TO have a bank
had bppn rejected power too dangerous for Congress
had they seen the journals Of the Convention which
framed the Constitution Of the U. S. which really have,
AZ far as the people concerned yet been pub
shed but merely prnted-can 1t be believed, with all
the facts alluded that they would have been ever
persuaded 10 have adopted the idea that Congress had
this power? Facts stubborn things Ingenious Tea
soners by we'll digested arguments, may enhhee aho
perplex the mind give TO the words necessary
and rrouer" the force of capt and convenient But,
had The American people been in The possession OF these