An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free go...
The Constitution has intrusted Congress exclusively with the power of creating and regulating a currency of that descrip...
The United States, having been the first to abolish within the extent of their authority the transportation of the nativ...
Occurrences having taken place which shew that the statutory provisions for the dispensation of criminal justice are def...
the warrantees may, in person or by their attorneys or other legal representatives, in the presence of the register and ...
the locations of the land warrants of the said volunteers should 'be subject to such regulations as to priority of choic...
should any of the warrants not appear for location on that day they may be located afterwards, according to their priori...
the land warrants of the said Canadian volunteers may be located agreeably to the said act at the land offices at Vincen...
I lay before Congress copies of a convention concluded between the United States and the Cherokee Indians on the 2d day ...
I recommend also that further restraints be imposed on the issue of patents to wrongful claimants, and further guards pr...
With a view to the more convenient arrangement of the important and growing business connected with the grant of exclusi...
The occasion may be proper, also, for securing the use and accommodations of the Neapolitan ports, which may at any time...
I transmit also a copy of the late treaty of peace with Algiers, as certified by one of the commissioners of the United ...
I transmit the original of the convention between the United States and Great Britain, as signed by their respective ple...
I lay before the Senate, for their consideration and advice as to a ratification, a convention to regulate the commerce ...
I, James Madison, President as aforesaid, have caused the premises to be made public; and I do hereby enjoin all persons...
Experience has taught us that neither the pacific dispositions of the American people nor the pacific character of their...
This source of national independence and wealth I anxiously recommend to the prompt and constant guardianship of Congres...
