...States " was the principal cause of the meeting of the federal convention. Of these laws, he wrote : The injustice of them has been so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most steadfast friends of Republicanism. I am persuaded I do not err in saying that the evils issuing from...

...States " was the principal cause of the meeting of the federal convention. Of these laws, he wrote : The injustice of them has been so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most steadfast friends of Republicanism. I am persuaded I do not err in saying that the evils issuing from...

...Constitution on laws affecting private rights. "The mutability of the laws of the states," he says, "is found to be a serious evil. The injustice of them...been so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most steadfast friends of Republicanism. I am persuaded I do not err in saying that the evils issuing from...

...States" was the principal cause of the meeting of the Federal Convention. Of these laws he wrote : "The injustice of them has been so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most steadfast friends of Republicanism. I am persuaded I do not err in saying that the evils issuing from...

...is "the origin of the evils we now feel." The abuses of the state legislatures, said Madison, were "so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most stedfast friends of Republicanism," and these abuses, he told Jefferson in the fall of 1787, "contributed more to that uneasiness which...

...address the problem of the oppressions by majority factions of minority rights at the state level: The injustice of them has been so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most stedfast [sic] friends of Republicanism. I am persuaded I do not err in saying that the evils issuing from these...

...address the problem of the oppressions of majority factions of minority rights at the state level: The injustice of them has been so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most stedfast [sic] friends of Republicanism. I am persuaded I do not err in saying that the evils issuing from these...

...protection of individual rights. The mutability and injustice of state laws, he told Jefferson, were "so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most stedfast friends of Republicanism," who sought "to secure individuals against encroachments on their rights." In Madison's considered judgment,...

...law was a prime impetus behind the adoption of the American Constitution. Hence James Madison wrote: The mutability of the laws of the States is found...been so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most steadfast friends of Republicanism. I am persuaded that I do not err in saying that the evils issuing...

...800. Reflecting the same discouraging mood, Madison wrote (in the fall of 1 787) of legislative abuses "so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most stedfast friends of Republicanism . . . [and which] contributed more to the uneasiness which produced the Convention, and prepared the...