Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . new free State of Virginia;and tho same year he was elected f member of the State legislature. He lostthe suffrages of his constituents the bllowing year, because, it was alleged, thathe would not treat the people tf liquor, and could not make a speech! Thelegislature named him a member )f the executive council, in Avhich office heserved until 1779. when he was e^ ^cted to membership in the Continental Con-gress. He took his seat there in VLarch, 1
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . new free State of Virginia;and tho same year he was elected f member of the State legislature. He lostthe suffrages of his constituents the bllowing year, because, it was alleged, thathe would not treat the people tf liquor, and could not make a speech! Thelegislature named him a member )f the executive council, in Avhich office heserved until 1779. when he was e^ ^cted to membership in the Continental Con-gress. He took his seat there in VLarch, 1780, and for three years he was oneof the most reliable men in that b Mr. Madison was again a mfoaber of the Virginia Assembly, from 1784 to1786, where he was the champi n of every wise and liberal pohcy, especially in 1. While at Princeton, be slept only t iree hours of the twenty-four, for months together. 2. He was the author of the able inp ructions to Mr. Jay, when he went as minister to Spain : also ofike Address of the States, at the end *? the war, on the subject of the financial affairs of the confederacy. JAMES MADISON. 297. religious matters. He advocated the separation of Kentucky from Virginia,opposed the introduction of paper money; supported the laws codified by Jeffer-son, Wythe, and Pendleton; and was the author of the resolution which led tothe convention at Annapolis, in 1786, and the more important constitutionalconvention, in 1787. Ho was a member of the convention that formed theFederal Constitution, and he kept a futhful record of all the proceedings of thatbody, day after day.^ After the labors of the convention were over, he joinedwith Hamilton and Jay in the publication of a series of essays in support of , in collected form, are known as The Federalist In the Virginia conven-tion called to consider the constitution, Mr. Madison was chiefly instrumental inprocuring its ratification, in spite of the fears of many, and the eloquence ofPatr
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