* 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives ; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights ; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.

* 1737 – James Lovell, American educator ( d. 1789 )

* 1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist ( d. 1851 )

James Madison changed " ought " to " shall ", when he proposed the amendment to Congress in 1789.

In 1789, while introducing to the House of Representatives nineteen draft Amendments, James Madison addressed what would become the Ninth Amendment as follows:

* " Proposed Amendments to the Constitution " by James Madison ( 1789 )

In 1789 when James Madison proposed to insert the word " national " in the part of the Bill of Rights providing that " no religion shall be established by law ," Elbridge Gerry told Congress that the Antifederalists had objected to the injustice of that name because they favored a federal government, while the Federalists favored " a national one.

James Madison drafted the Virginia Plan in 1787 and the Bill of Rights in 1789.

* September 14 – James Fenimore Cooper, American writer ( b. 1789 )

** James Paine, English architect ( d. 1789 )

Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789.

* James Boyles Murray ( 1789 – 1866 ), businessman in New York

Presented in the United States House of Representatives by Representative James Madison of Virginia, this amendment was the second of the twelve Constitutional amendments originally submitted to the state legislatures for ratification by the 1st Congress on September 25, 1789, the last ten of which became the United States Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791.

Under French law, both Sally and James could have petitioned for their freedom, as the 1789 revolutionary constitution in France abolished slavery in principle.

In 1789, Sally and James Hemings returned to the United States with Jefferson.

West Point was founded by pioneer James Young, who built a cabin at the site in 1789 and, in 1797, built a brick house and inn that is still standing today.

* James Alexander, Jr., ( 1789 – 1846 ), born near Delta, United States Congressman from Ohio

His elder son James Erskine Wemyss ( 1789 – 1854 ) was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy and the grandfather of Admiral of the Fleet Rosslyn Erskine-Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss ( 12 April 1864 – 24 May 1933 ), known as Sir Rosslyn Wemyss between 1916 and 1919.

* James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury ( 1748 – 1823 ) ( created Marquess of Salisbury in 1789 )

Three sons from Stephen's first marriage ( m. Anna Stent at St Leonard, Shoreditch 1783 ) survived him, and achieved prominence in law, abolition and the civil service: Sir James Stephen ( 1789 – 1859 ), Henry John Stephen ( 1787 – 1864 ), and George Stephen ( 1794 – 1879 ).

* Mary Mackintosh ( 1789 – 1876 ) married Claudius James Rich

The adjacent St Swithun's Church, stands on the highest ground in the town and was rebuilt in the eighteenth century ( the tower dating from 1789 ) to a perpendicular design by James Wyatt ; its imposing building dominates the surrounding countryside for many miles around.

Architect James Wyatt rebuilt it in local stone in 1789 after it became derelict and collapsed.

James Hutton ( 1726-1797 ), the " Father of Geology " in 1789, in a lecture presented on his behalf by Dr. Black, wrote " I consider the Earth to be a super-organism and that its proper study should be by physiology.

James Madison was also influenced by the Declaration while drafting the Bill of Rights ( completed September 1787, approved 1789 ), as was the Marquis de Lafayette in voting the French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ( 1789 ).

As Madison commented to Jefferson in 1789, `` We are in a wilderness without a single footstep to guide us.

In 1789, Madison became a leader in the new House of Representatives, drafting many basic laws.

On June 8, 1789, Madison introduced his bill proposing amendments consisting of Nine Articles comprising up to 20 Amendments depending on how one counted.

Nonetheless, the Court stopped short of compelling Madison ( by writ of mandamus ) to hand over Marbury's commission, instead holding that the provision of the Judiciary Act of 1789 that enabled Marbury to bring his claim to the Supreme Court was itself unconstitutional, since it purported to extend the Court's original jurisdiction beyond that which Article III established.

Madison became a leading member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Virginia ( 1789 – 1797 ), Secretary of State ( 1801 – 1809 ), and ultimately the fourth President of the United States.

Sometimes called the " Congressional Compensation Amendment of 1789 ", the " Congressional Pay Amendment ", and the " Madison Amendment ", it was intended to serve as a restraint on the power of Congress to set its own salary — an obvious potential for conflict of interest.

* 1803-Marbury v. Madison ( 5 US 137 1803 ) allows Supreme Court to invalidate law passed by the United States Congress for first time: the Judiciary Act of 1789

On the panel of the northwest interior wall is an excerpt from " A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1777 ", except for the last sentence, which is taken from a letter of August 28, 1789, to James Madison:

On August 15, 1789 Madison said, " he apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience ....”

When the Bill of Rights was originally proposed by Congress in 1789 to the states, various substantive and procedural rights were " classed according to their affinity to each other " instead of being submitted to the states " as a single act to be adopted or rejected in the gross ," as James Madison put it.

Scalia pointed to several historical examples of calling on divine guidance by American Presidents, including Washington's proclamation of the Thanksgiving holiday in 1789 and the inaugural addresses of both Madison and Thomas Jefferson.

James Madison sponsored him as Clerk of the House in 1789.

In a letter written by James Madison to Thomas Jefferson on March 29, 1789, ' Mr W Fitzhugh of Chatham ' is described as a Federalist

Similarly, in the US, the Judiciary Act of 1789, which was famously ruled unconstitutional in part by Marbury v. Madison, was called " An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States ".

This other proposal, dating back to the 1st Congress in 1789, had been authored by James Madison, then a member of the U. S. House of Representatives.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

On 11 July 1789, Lafayette presented a draft of the " Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ".

A selection of the Papers presented at the Colloquium appraising Griesbach's life, work and influence, aimed " to indicate why an understanding of this scholar's contribution to New Testament criticism is important both for the history of New Testament scholarship and for contemporary research ", together with the text in Latin and in English translation of The Dissertation of J. J. Griesbach, Doctor of Theology and Principal Professor in the University of Jena, in which he demonstrates that the entire Gospel of Mark has been extracted from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, written in the name of the University of Jena ( 1789 – 1790 ), now revised and furnished with many additions, are to be found in Bernard Orchard and Thomas R. W. Longstaff ( ed.

With his election as first President of the United States, General Washington retired from the Board of Visitors and Governors and accepted the honorary degree of doctor of laws, which a delegation from Chestertown presented to him on June 24, 1789, in New York, then the seat of Congress.

He did not succeed with the practical application of his invention until 1789, three years after Lukin ’ s converted coble was presented to Dr Sharpe.

In 1789, Robertson was presented by the dean and canons of Christ Church to the vicarage of Ravensthorpe, near Northampton, but his principal residence was still in Oxford.

When this largely fell upon deaf ears, Porteus next began work on his Plan for the Effectual Conversion of the Slaves of the Codrington Estate, which he presented to the SPG committee in 1784 and, when it was turned down, again in 1789.

Thomas Dadford, Jr. carried out the survey, and presented a plan to a meeting in December 1789 for a canal, costing £ 83, 000, with estimated receipts of £ 4, 300 per year.

La fille mal gardée ( English: The Wayward Daughter, literal translation: The Badly Guarded Girl and also known as The Girl Who Needed Watching ) is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1789 painting, La réprimande / Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère.

The ballet was first presented under the title Le ballet de la paille, ou Il n ’ est qu ’ un pas du mal au bien ( The Ballet of Straw, or There is Only One Step from Bad to Good ) at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France on Wednesday, 1 July, 1789.

The ballet was first presented at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France on 1 July 1789.

The performance history of La Fille mal gardée came full circle in 1993, when the Ballet du Rhin of Mulhouse, France presented a revival of Dauberval's original production of 1789.