Dear ChatGPT: What were James Madison's interests financial interests around the time of the writing or the US Constitution? Provide references and additional readings.

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Additional Prompts: 

- In Federalist 10 James Madison mentions "wicked projects" including "A rage for paper money." What was he refering to specifically? Provide references and additional readings.

- - Additional readings: 

- - - the postwar debt crisis.

- - - debtor-relief laws.

- - - Rhode Island’s paper-money policy

- - - Article I, Section 10 forbids states to “emit Bills of Credit.

- - Protesters in Shays’s Rebellion sought relief from taxes, debts, and foreclosures and shut courts to prevent collections.

- In Federalist 10 James Madison mentions "wicked projects" including "A rage for . . . an abolition of debts." What was he refering to specifically? Provide references and additional readings.

- - Additional readings: 

- - - Debtor relief took several forms:

- - - - delaying collection through installment laws,

- - - - accepting property instead of money as payment,

- - - - issuing paper money that creditors had to accept, or

- - - - preventing courts from hearing collection cases.

- In Federalist 10 James Madison mentions "wicked projects" including "A rage for . . . an equal division of property." What was he refering to specifically? Provide references and additional readings.

- - Additonal readings: 

- - - agrarian law

- - - leveling scheme

- - - The leveling spirit

- - - In 1787 John Adams described a possible sequence in which a propertyless voting majority would first abolish debts and ultimately vote to divide property equally.