The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCCLXI

by Max Farrand

ⅭⅭⅭⅬⅩⅠ. James Madison to George Mason.^[1]

Montpellier, Decr 29, 1827.

The public situation in which I had the best opportunity of being acquainted with the genius, the opinions, and the public labours of Col. Mason, was that of our co-service in the Convention of 1787, which formed the Constitution of the United States. The objections which led him to withhold his name from it have been explained by himself. But none who differed from him on some points will deny that he sustained throughout the proceedings of the body the high character of a powerful reasoner, a profound statesmen, and a devoted Republican.

1. Letters and other Writings of James Madison, Ⅲ, 607.