I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system.
The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination.
A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be...
Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that their attention be e...
I know that the acquisition of Louisiana had been disapproved by some from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would...
In all events, it will replace the advances we shall have made.
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be ...
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes.
I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found ...
We have therefore liberally furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household use.
In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Gover...