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

by Max Farrand

XCI. James McClurg to James Madison.^[1]

Richmond Augt. 22. 87.

I have so much pleasure from your communications, that I shall be careful to acknowledge the receipt of them, with a view to secure their continuance.

I have still some hope that I shall hear from you of ye reinstatement of ye Negative—as it is certainly ye only mean by which the several Legislatures can be restrain’d from disturbing ye order & harmony of ye whole, & ye Governmt. render’d properly national, & one. I should suppose yt some of its former opponents must by this time have seen ye necessity of advocating it, if they wish to support their own principles.

1. Documentary History of the Constitution, IV, 264.