James Monroe: “To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate a copy of the rules, regulations, and instructions for the…”

The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.

The attitude assumed by the State formed a case which was not contemplated by the existing laws of the United States relating to militia services.

I transmit to the Senate a convention, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the Republic of Colombia at Bogota on the 10th of December, 1824, together with the documents appertaining to the negotiation of the same…

Of the right in Congress to promote these great results by the appropriation of the public money, in harmony with the States to be affected by them, having already communicated my sentiments fully and on mature consideration, I deem it…