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Madison, James, Va., attends convention, i., 2; moves question of representation in legislature, 36; Pierce's sketch of, 36, n.; favors proportional representation, 36, 38, 253; favors election to House by popular vote, 41, 86; opposes district elections to Senate, 44; opposes defining powers of national legislature, 47; opposes use of force against recalcitrant states, 47; moves consideration of powers of executive, 52; opposes removability of executive on motion of state legislatures, 63; favors qualified negative of executive on legislation, 71; favors inclusion of judiciary with executive in negative on legislation, 75, 91; opposes appointment of judges by legislature, 77, 131; favors ratification of constitution by popular vote, 80, ii., 36; favors creation of inferior judicial tribunals, i., 83; opposes elections to Senate by state legislatures, 99; favors a small Senate elected by the people, 96; favors negative by national legislature of state laws, 102, 106, 373; favors three years' term for Representatives, 124; favors national compensation of members of national legislature, 125, 212; favors seven years' term for Senators, 128; moves to define jurisdiction of judiciary, 130; thinks Senate should have power to originate money bills, 133; opposes Jersey plan, 167; thinks national government in danger from state governments, 202; opposes annual elections of Representatives, 208; favors compensation of Representatives by fixed standard, 211; favors ineligibility of Representatives to other offices, 218; favors partial ineligibility of Representatives to other offices, 221; moves debate on mode of voting in Senate, 235; sets forth objects of Senate, 238; opposes compensation of Senators by state legislatures, 345; opposes equal state representation, 264, 276, 357, 363; would preserve state rights, 282; opposes compromise committee on representation in Senate, 292, 296; thinks question of representation vital, 315; suggests representation by free population in House and by free and slaves in Senate, 321; moves increase in representation of all states, 325; thinks basis of representation should be fixed, 335; favors census at least every fifteen years, 340; favors adjustment of taxation to representation, 348; favors independence of executive, 380; thinks tendency is to give executive too little power, 382; favors appointment of judges by executive and one-third of Senate, 385; moves appointment of judges by executive and two-thirds of Senate, 387; objects to power to increase judges' salaries, 388; favors continuance of old Congress to prevent interregnum, 390; favors national guaranty against domestic violence, 391; favors election of executive by the people, ii., 6; favors varying ratio for electors to choose executive, 10; favors impeachability of executive, 12; seconds motion to include judiciary in revisionary power, 18, 22; moves appointment of judges by executive and Senate, 26; is willing to allow a majority of Senate to reject appointment of judges, 28; speaks on mode of election of executive, 49; thinks each voter may vote for two persons for executive, 54; thinks persons indebted to government should be excluded from legislature, 60; moves that property qualification be not confined to landed property, 62; opposes mutual negative of each branch of legislature over acts of the other, 92; suggests that time of meeting of legislature be not fixed in constitution, 92, 93; favors fixing time of meeting of legislature provisionally, 94; favors changing time of meeting of legislature from December to May, 95; favors power of suffrage by freeholders, 99; views on suffrage, 100, n.; favors requiring Representatives to be inhabitants of their states, 107; opposes proposition that Representatives be required to reside seven years in their states, 108; objects to fixed ratio of Representatives to inhabitants, 111; moves representation of not more than 1 to 40,000 inhabitants, 136; opposed to originating money bills in House, 116; moves that vacancies in Senate must happen by refusals, resignations, etc., 117; thinks provision as to money bills valueless to large states, 118; opposes fourteen years' citizenship as necessary for Senators, 121; opposes leaving time and mode of electing Representatives wholly to state legislatures, 126; writes to Jefferson on progress of the convention, 126, n.; thinks property qualification for members of government should be fixed in constitution, 130, 131; moves that expulsion from legislature be by two-thirds vote, 135; moves legislature have power to compel attendance, 135; moves that Senate shall publish its legislative journal, 137; insists upon central location for capital, 139; thinks legislature should not have power to change place of meeting, 138; writes to his father, 142, n.; thinks citizenship and inhabitancy alone necessary for Representatives, 144; thinks government responsible for what states have done, 146; thinks Senate may decrease money bills, 152; thinks constitution should regulate compensation of legislature, 167; moves that laws be revised by executive and judiciary, 172; thinks power to tax exports desirable, 176; opposes power to emit bills of credit, 181; thinks punishment of piracies, etc., ought not to be fixed by legislature, 184; moves that legislature define piracies, etc., 185; moves that rebellion to be suppressed be against government, 187; moves to give legislature power to declare war, 188; submits power over public lands, Indians, seat of government, charters, copyrights, university, forts, 189; favors national control of militia, 197; moves power to create offices in legislature, 203; thinks treason should be broadly defined, 203, 204; thinks treason may be against nation and a state, 205; thinks treason should not be twice punishable, 207; thinks present representation temporary, 211; favors power to tax exports, 215; favors taxation of exports by two-thirds legislature, 217; on committee on navigation acts, 226; thinks new government should have power to fulfil engagements of old government, 229; explains provisions as to militia, 230; favors national control of militia, 232; proposes states appoint militia officers under rank of general, 233; thinks disunion the greatest danger, 234; moves to commit question of negative of state laws, 236; moves to include President in treaty-making power, 238; suggests inconvenience of legal ratification of treaties, 238; suggests varying participation of legislature in different treaties, 240; thinks larger states should have larger vote in election of executive, 244; moves extension of appointing power of executive, 246; opposes slave-trade extension, 250; opposes admitting property in men in constitution, 252; moves that treaties be supreme law, 252; thinks president of Senate should not be in executive succession, 256; moves amendment to oath of executive, 256; favors fixed salaries for judges, 258; proposes salaries of judges be not changed for three years, 258; moves judiciary have jurisdiction over cases in which U. S. is a party, 259; thinks judicial power should not extend to all cases under constitution, 259; moves verbal change in judiciary clause, 260; thinks states should not have power to interfere in private contracts, 263; thinks retrospective laws are prohibited, 263; moves states be forbidden to pass embargoes, 264; moves to forbid states to lay imposts, 264, 265; objects to imposts by states, 266; favors committing clause on state acts, 267; thinks commercial regulations not injurious to south, 272; thinks western states entitled to an equality with others, 274; opposes guaranty of public lands, 281; thinks constitution may go into operation without a majority in favor, 284; moves ratification by seven states and thirty-three Representatives, 285; thinks ratification conventions necessary, 286; thinks it inconvenient if vessels must enter and clear at their own ports, 291; on committee of August 31, 292; offers amendment strengthening interstate validity of state acts, 293; fears election of President will be thrown on Senate, 300; doubts if legislature should judge of privileges of its members, 304; thinks legislature should not participate in electing President, 309; proposes that election of President may be by one-third of whole number of electors, 310; moves that electors not voting be not counted, 311; moves that two-thirds Senate be present when voting for President, 318; shows President may be elected by two states, 319; moves that election of President by legislature when Vice-president also dies be temporary, 323; seconds motion that no state vote for President in legislature by less than three Representatives, 325; thinks some cure required to prevent minority in legislature electing President, 325; proposes treaties of peace be by majority of Senate, 330; proposes two-thirds Senate make treaties of peace without President, 330; favors executive council, 332; thinks treaties have been too easily made in past, 334; moves quorum of Senate be two-thirds, 406; thinks impeachment of President should not be on vague grounds, 335; moves supreme court try President, 335; seconds motion to increase representation, 339; thinks clause relative to amendments should be reconsidered, 340, 341; favors three-quarter vote to override President's negative, 363; favors state export duties, 365; thinks supreme court can negative state laws, 365; moves verbal amendment to clause relative to negative of bills, 368; moves words "by lot" be struck out for classifying Senators, 369; thinks President ought not to be suspended when impeached, 370; favors national charters where states are incompetent, 372; moves power to establish university, 374; favors limiting standing army, 374; moves public accounts be published from time to time, 376; writes to J. Q. Adams, 378, n.; favors national control of commercial regulations, 380; thinks Senate may participate in pardons for treason, 382; thinks superior officers may make appointments, 383; thinks legislature may propose amendments, 385; opposes special provisos in constitution, 386.