ABATEMENT proposed in the apportionment of certain states, 58, 63, 77. ABOLITION of the state governments, 212, 217, 218, 220, 224, 244, 256. Of slavery, 457, 459. ABSENCE of members of the Federal Convention provided against, 125, 126. Of members of Con- gress provided against, 406, 559. Of the Vice- President, 507, 559.
ADHERENCE to enemies constitutes treason, 130, 379, 448, 563.
ADJOURNMENT of the Convention may be by less than a quorum, 124. Of the Houses of Con- gress, 130, 378, 380, 406, 409, 560, 563.
ADMIRALTY, courts of, to be established by Congress, 131, 159. Cases of, under the juris- diction of judiciary, 131, 378, 563.
ACCEPTANCE of titles or presents forbidden, 467, ADMISSION. See NEW STATES.
ACHEAN LEAGUE, 208, 209, 219.
ACCOUNTS relative to prisoners with the British, 4. Of the army to be settled, 30. To be rendered to states, 63. An examination of, by a committee of Congress, 80. The mode of adjusting those of the states, 86, 100. All relating to public money should be made public, 284. Unsettled, to dis- qualify persons from being members of Congress, 371. To be published from time to time, 546,
ACTS to be originated by each branch of the legis- lature, 127, 139, 190, 375, 378. Each house to have a negative on them, 377, 382. Mode of passing them, 378, 428, 560. To be subject to revision, 128, 130, 151, 153, 164, 205, 344, 358, 376, 379, 428, 534, 536, 560. To be reenacted by a certain vote after revision, 128, 130, 151, 155, 328, 348, 376, 379, 428, 537, 541, 560. To be passed, in cer- tain cases, by two thirds, 166, 379, 470, 489, 560. To be suspended by the executive for a limited time, 154. To be the supreme law, 131, 192, 322, 375, 379, 467, 564. Relating to money, to originate in the House of Representatives, 129, 188, 274, 282, 310, 316, 375, 377, 394, 396, 410, 414, 423, 427, 452, 510, 529, 560. Relating to money, to be voted on in proportion to the contributions of the states, 266. Relating to money, when altered, 274, 316, 375, 377, 394, 410, 415, 428, 560. Relating to bankruptcy, 488, 503, 504, 560. Relating to nat uralization, 192, 378, 392, 411, 560. Relating to the migration and importation of slaves, 379, 457, 471, 477, 561. Relating to navigation, 130, 379, 461, 470, 534, 539, 540, 548, 560. Ex post facto, 462, 485, 488, 545, 546, 561. Of the states to receive full credit, 132, 381, 488, 504, 563. Of the states to be negatived by Congress, 127, 139, 171, 193, 210, 215, 249, 251, 321, 468. ADAMS, JOHN, negotiates a treaty of commerce with the Dutch, 27. Distrusts the French min- isters in the negotiations for peace, 18. Prophetic observations relative to Gibraltar, 27. His con- duct towards France, during the negotiations, discussed, 65, 68, 73, 74. Sends the prelimina- ries of peace, 84. Has leave to return, 567, 568. ADAMS, SAMUEL, introduces a person from Can- ada, 45. Views on the Federal Constitution, 571. ADDRESS of the Congress of the Confederation to the states, 88, 111. Of the Congress of the Confederation to Rhode Island, 88. Of the army to Congress, 20. For the formation of a new state in Pennsylvania, 31. Of the Convention at Annapolis, 115. Of the Federal Convention to accompany the Constitution, 535, 546.
AFFAIRS, Indian, 440, 462, 560. Department of domestic, 442, 446, 462. Department of foreign, under the Confederation, 9, 82, 89, 99. Depart- ment of foreign, under the Constitution, 442, 446,
AFFIRMATION. See OATH.
AGE of Representatives, 127, 129, 184, 228, 375, 377, 559. Of Senators, 127, 129, 186, 189, 241, 375, 377, 559. Of the President, 360, 462, 507, 562. Disability on account of, 360, 413. AGRICULTURE, promotion of, 446. ALBANY, deputies meet there in 1754, 110. ALIENS. See NATURALIZATION. Remarks on their admission to political rights, 398, 411. ALLIANCE; discussions on the conduct of the American ministers at Paris in regard to alliance with Spain, 65. Danger of foreign, 258. small states with foreign powers, 268, 269. Treaties of, 470. Forbidden to the states by the Constitution, 131, 546, 561.
ALLEGHANY, how far a boundary of states, 87,
AMBASSADORS to be appointed by the President and Senate, 205, 507, 523, 562. To be appointed by the Senate, 131, 379, 468, 469. To be received by the President, 131, 380, 479, 563. Cases of, under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, 131, 192, 380, 563.
AMENDMENTS of the Articles of Confederation strongly desired, 114. A Convention for, pro- posed at various times, 117. Of the Constitution to be provided for therein, 128, 157, 182, 190, 351, 376, 381, 551, 564. To be made by a Convention to be called by Congress, 132, 381, 498, 530, 551, 564. To be made by Congress, with the assent of a certain number of the states, 132, 551, 564. A second Federal Convention for, proposed, 552, 553. Of money bills by the Senate, 274, 316, 375, 377, 394, 410, 415, 427, 510, 529, 560. AMERICAN REVOLUTION, its effect in produ- cing reform in Europe, 575. AMPHICTYONIC LEAGUE, 200, 208, 209, 210,
ANARCHY, danger of, in 1787, 127. ANNAPOLIS, Convention at, 96, 113, 114, 118. ANNUAL meetings of Congress, 129, 377, 383, 385, 559. Election of representatives, 183, 224 Publication of the accounts, 545.
APPEAL, COURT OF, under the Confederation, 2. ! Judges elected, 11.
APPELLATE jurisdiction of the national judicia- ry, 131, 159, 192, 205, 208, 380, 483, 484, 563. APPLICATION to Congress to subdue insurrection, 130, 378, 437, 497, 534, 564. Of the states to Con- gress to remove the President, 147. Of the states to Congress for a Convention to amend the Con- stitution, 381, 498, 551, 564.
APPOINTMENTS, danger of conferring the power of, on the President, 154, 329. The responsibility of the President in its exercise, 349. Of the President, 128, 140, 142, 143, 322, 358, 363, 370, 380, 471, 507, 512, 515, 562. Of the Vice-Pres- ident, 507, 508, 520, 522, 562. Of an executive council, 446, 462, 525. Of senators by the Pres- ident, 167. Of judges, 128, 131, 155, 156, 188, 205, 238, 349, 350, 376, 378, 379, 468, 469, 507, 524, 562. Of a treasurer, by ballot, 130, 378, 436. Of ambassadors, 131, 379, 467, 469, 507, 524, 562. Of heads of departments, 446. Of officers in the militia, 443, 451, 464, 561. Of state ex- ecutives by the general government, 205, 468. By the President, with the advice of the Senate, 131, 205, 328, 349, 507, 516, 524, 562. By the President, 141, 190, 192, 325, 334, 376, 380, 421, 446, 474, 505, 517, 550, 562. By the Senate, 131, 144, 156, 317, 328, 379, 467, 507, 508, 509, 513, 516, 525. By Congress, 127, 140, 147, 190, 192, 322, 335, 358, 366, 369, 375, 380, 382, 442, 472, 507, 508, 510, 513, 520, 525, 550. By an equal vote of the states, 266. By the courts, 550, 563. By the heads of departments, 550, 563. By the state author- ities to national offices, 475, 479. Not to be made to offices not previously created by law, 474, 528, 529, 563.
See QUOTA, PROPORTION.
Of the Senate to be made after a census by the representatives, 131. Of the Senate into classes, 129, 270, 377, 559. Of representatives by a peri- odical census, 129, 131, 279, 280, 288, 316, 375, 377, 392, 559. Slaves to be considered in making that of representatives, 288, 290, 295, 296, 316, 375, 379, 391, 553, 559. Of representatives be- fore a census, 129, 288, 290, 316, 375, 377, 541, 547, 553, 559. Of electors of the President, 338, 339, 507, 520, 562. Of direct taxation to be in proportion to representation, 304, 305, 306, 316, 375, 379, 391, 545, 559. Of taxation before a census, 306, 307, 357, 451, 452, 559. Of the adjustment of the state debts according to the rule of representation and taxation, 452. APPROPRIATIONS, to be made by law when- ever money is drawn from the treasury, 274, 316, 375, 377, 415, 420, 427, 510, 529, 561. To be limited in their duration, 510, 561. ARISTOCRACY, 271, 283, 386, 394, 418, 419, 420,
ARMAND, mutinous conduct of the troops in his legion, 92.
ARMING the militia, 130, 443, 451, 464, 544, 561. ARMY, to be called out by Congress against a state failing in its constitutional duty, 128, 378. To be raised by Congress, 130, 379, 442, 510, 553, 561. To be commanded by the President, 131, 380, 562. To be superintended by a secretary of war, 446. Not to be kept by the states, 131, 205, 381, 548, 561. Officers of, not to be members of Con- gress, 422, 425. Provision as to a standing army, 442, 445, 466, 511, 544.
ARMY, AMERICAN, very much discontented, 23, 50, 66, 92. Goes into winter quarters, 1. Promotion should not be by districts, 10. Sends a memorial to Congress, 20. Conferences of deputies from the army with committee of Con- gress, 21, 23, 26. Suggestion to fund the debt due to it, 23, 51. Plan of settlement of its arrears, 30, 36, 51, 57, 59, 83. Proposal to appropriate the proceeds of impost to it, 51. Its determina- tion to have provision for its pay, 55, 73. Reor- ganization of military affairs, 82. Satisfaction of, announced to Congress, 82. Amount of the
army debt in 1783, 83. Furloughs granted, 8" Indemnity to officers of, 88. Mode of disbanding it, 89, 90. Proposal to give them certificates for land, 90. Mutinous conduct of the Pennsyl- vania troops, 92, 93. Enlistment of troops on ac- count of the insurrection in Massachusetts, 94, 99. Troops kept by the states without the assent of Congress, 119.
ARMY, FRENCH, proposal to employ a legion of, in retaking goods seized while under pass- port, 50. ARNOLD, JONATHAN, represents Rhode Island in Congress, 1. His correspondence about Ver- mont, 31. Opposes the commutation of half
pay, 45. ARREARS to the army very large, 50, 51. Some provision for, asked, 24. Report for their settle- ment, 29, 30. Proposal to pay those to the army first, 51. Mode of settlement, 30, 31, 44, 57, 59, 64, 83. Amount in 1783, 83. Unprovided for in 1787, 119.
ARREST, freedom from, 130, 378, 445, 560. ARSENALS, may be provided by Congress, 130. Jurisdiction in, to be exercised by Congress, 130, 511, 561. ARTICLES.
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, reported in Congress, 110. Adopted, 111. Fifth article, 106. Eighth article, 21, 24, 63. Ninth article, 28, 36, 55, 88, 92, 102, 103. Twelfth article, 57. of voting under, 61, 88, 92. Their violation by the states, 206, 208, 214. Necessity of enlarging them, 127. Amendment of them, 34, 63, 127, 191, 193, 197, 354.
ASGILL, CAPTAIN. Congress discusses the question of, 2. He is released by Congress, 2. ASSAULT on members of Congress, 445. ASSENT, of the states to the Constitution, 541. Of the Congress of the Confederation to the Constitution, 532. Of Congress and the state legislatures to a division of the states, 381, 493, 563. Of the Senate to treaties, 205, 507, 524, 562. Of the states to purchases by Congress, 511, 561. Of the states to certain acts of Con- gress, 552, 564. Of the states to amendments of the Constitution, 132, 381, 564. Of both Houses to an adjournment beyond a certain period, 130, 378, 560. Of Congress necessary to certain acts by the states, 131, 381, 484, 486, 548, 549, 561. Of Congress to amendments of the Constitution, 128, 157, 182, 564. Of the Senate to pardons, 480. Of the Senate to appointments, 131, 205, 329, 349, 507, 523, 562.
ASSOCIATION, to promote American manufac- tures, proposed in the Federal Convention, 540. ASSUMPTION, of the engagements of the Con- federation, 128, 157, 190, 332, 440, 441, 451, 471, 564. Of the debts of the states, 441, 451, 452, 471.
ATTAINDER, not to work corruption of blood or forfeiture beyond the life of the party, 379, 451, 563. Bills of, not to be passed, 462, 485, 528, 545, 546, 561.
ATTENDANCE of members of Congress to be provided for, 406, 560.
ATHENIANS, 159, 162, 252, 398. AUSTRIA, her mediation, 1. with, 52.
AUTHORS, protection of by Congress, 440, 511, 561.
BALDWIN, ABRAHAM, attends the Federal Convention, 178. Views on the mode of elect- ing the President, 509. Thinks there should be a representation of property in the Senate, 260. Views as to the eligibility of members of Con- gress to office, 505, 542. Thinks the qualification as to citizenship should apply as much to the
present as the future, 414. Views as to pro- visions about slaves, 459, 478. Prefers a provis- ion that the claims to the public lands shall not be affected by the Constitution, 497. BALLOT, mode of voting by in Congress, 382, 436, 472, 520. President to be chosen by, 507, 512, 514, 520, 562. President to be chosen by electors by, 143, 507, 520, 562. President to be chosen by the state legislatures by, 359, 472. President to be chosen by Congress by, 380. Electors of President to be chosen by, 514. Senators to be chosen by, 129. Congress to ap- point a treasurer by, 130, 378, 434. Committees of the Convention chosen by, 125. BANK, proposed by P. Webster, 117. Remarks upon in the Federal Convention, 544, BANKRUPTCY, laws for, needed under Con- federation, 120. Congress to establish a uniform law of, 488, 503, 504, 560. BARCLAY, THOMAS, 14. BARNEY, CAPTAIN, 65.
BASSET, RICHARD, attends the Federal Con- vention, 123.
BEDFORD, GUNNING, remarks on the terms of cession of the public lands by Virginia, 92, 93. Attends the Federal Convention, 124. Denies the right of the Convention to change the princi- ple of the Confederation, 268. Opposes a nega- tive of Congress on the state laws, 173. Insists on an equal suffrage of the states, 173, 267, 277. Accuses the large states of seeking to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the small, 267. Threatens an alliance of the small states with foreign powers, if oppressed by the large ones, 268. Explains his remarks as to the circum- stances which would justify the small states in a foreign alliance, 277. Wishes to define more accurately the legislative power of Con- gress, 320. Opposes the conferring of the ap- pointing power too entirely on the President, 329. Prefers three years as the executive term, 143. Advocates the removal of the President by Con- gress, on application of the states, 147. Opposes any negative on the legislature, 153.
BEHAVIOR, judges to continue during good, 128, 131, 156, 190, 205, 330, 376, 380, 481, 563. Senate to hold during good, 205, 241. President to hold during good, 325, 343. Of members of Congress, 378, 406, 560.
BENSON, EGBERT, views relative to Spain and Mississippi, 103.
BIENNIAL election of representatives, 183, 224, 375, 377, 558. Term of President, 335. BILLS, each House to have a negative on them, 377, 382. Mode of passing them, 378, 428, 560. To be revised by the President, 130, 151, 190, 205, 328, 348, 349, 358, 376, 378, 534, 560. To be ex- amined by a council of revision, 128, 151, 153, 164, 344, 4:28. Those returned by the President may be repassed, 130, 151, 154, 328, 349, 376, 378, 379, 534, 536, 540, 560. Óf attainder and ex post facto, 462, 485, 488, 528, 546, 561. Of exchange, damages on, 488. Origination of those about money, 129, 188, 274, 282, 310, 316, 375, 377, 394, 396, 410, 415, 422, 427, 452, 510, 529, 560. Alter- ation of those about money, 274, 316, 375, 377, 394, 410, 415, 420, 428, 510, 529, 560. Proportion- al vote on those about money, 266. Of credit, emission of by Congress, 130, 428, 434. Of credit, emission of by the states, 131, 432, 484, 561. BILLS OF EXCHANGE, provision in regard to, proposed in the Constitution, 488.
BILL OF RIGHTS, proposal to insert one in the Constitution, 538. Want of one objected to, 566,
BINGHAM, WILLIAM, desires division of Con- federacy, 96. Interview with Guardoqui relative to negotiations with Spain, 97. BISHOP, 572.
BLAIR, JOHN, attends the Convention, 123. BLAND, THEODORICK, reports that Virginia cannot pay her quota, 33. Prefers the mode of raising revenue provided by the Confederation, 34. His views on a system of permanent revenue, 39, 41, 49, 52, 78. Advocates a commutation of half pay, 45. Advocates a decision by a majority of states in committee, 45. Proposes a tariff of specific duties, 51. Opposes a limitation as to the duration of impost, 52. Censures the con- duct of Robert Morris, 62, 67. Remarks on the conduct of the American commissioners at Paris, 70, 74, 75. Proposes to submit the impost sepa- rately to the states, 73. Remarks on the propor- tion of freemen to slaves in fixing the contribu- tions of the states, 79. Proposes the publication of Carleton's letters refusing to suspend hostil- ities, 81. Opposes the proposed Convention of Eastern States, 81. Opposes a hasty ratification of the provisional articles, 86. Remarks on ces- sions of public lands by the states, 87, 92. Moves to erase the application to France for a loan of three millions, 88. Opposes a delivery of the prisoners till slaves are restored, 88. Remarks on the votes of the new states, 92. Voted for as President of Congress, 1.
BLOUNT, WILLIAM, attends the Federal Con- vention, 205. Agrees to sign the Constitution in the form proposed, 556.
BOND, PHINEAS, discussion as to his admission as consul, 101.
BOOKS, proposal for Congress to purchase, 27. BORROWING, power of, given to Congress, 130, 378, 560.
BOUDINOT, ELIAS, represents New Jersey in Congress, 1. Is chosen president, 1. His views on a system of permanent revenue, 39. BOUNDARY with the Spanish settlements, 97, 101. Between Virginia and Maryland, 114. Of the states on the west, 87, 93, 97, 101. BRANCH. See HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. To be two in the legislature, 127, 129, 135, 166, 189, 195, 196, 205, 214, 216, 218, 242, 375, 377, 382, 558.
BRANDY, duty on, 61, 63.
BREACH of the peace, members of Congress may be arrested for, 130, 378, 560. Of the Articles of Confederation, its effect, 206, 214.
BREARLY, DAVID, attends the Federal Conven- tion, 123. Desires the attendance of the New Hampshire delegates, 261. Advocates equality of representation of the states in Congress, 175. Objects to the ballot for the election of President being joint, 472. Advocates an equal vote of the states in electing the President, 473. Wishes the article providing for amendments of the Con- stitution struck out, 552.
BRIBERY, President to be removed for, 131, 380, 480, 507, 528, 563.
BRITISH, intrigue to create distrust among the allies, 65. Try to effect a separate convention, 76. Promote mediation of Russia and Austria, 1. Commission Mr. Oswald to treat, 16, 65. Sign preliminaries of peace, 74, 84. Refuse to suspend hostilities, 80. Issue proclamation of peace, 84. Commercial treaty with, proposed, 88, 101. Delivery of posts, negroes, &c., 88, 98, 575. Insidious conduct relative to the articles of treaty, 89, 98. Designs upon the western terri- tory, 97. Operation of the definitive treaty on the states, 98. Their claims under the definitive treaty, 119, 575. Colonies, their state before the revolution, 109. Early design to tax the colonies, 110. Their irritating commercial regulations, 119, 567. Complain of violations of the defini- tive treaty, 119. Speculate on the downfall of the Confederation, 120. Their Constitution dis- cussed in the Federal Convention, 163, 202, 229
244, 284, 321, 347, 361, 387, 389. Their Parlia- ment commented upon, 173, 176, 257, 404, 415. Their Constitution not a proper guide, 188, 215, 234, 237, 283, 387.
BROOKS, COLONEL, a deputy from the army to Congress, 21, 23. Views on the Federal Con- stitution, 572.
BROOM, JACOB, attends the Federal Convention, 23. Opposes an adjournment of the Convention without adopting some plan, 318. In favor of electing the President by electors chosen by the state legislatures, 324, 338. In favor of the Pres- ident holding during good behavior, 325. In fa- vor of nine years as the senatorial term, 242. Claims an equal vote for the small states in the Senate, 293. Thinks members of Congress should be paid by the states, 426. In favor of a negative of Congress on the state laws, 468. Wishes officers in the army and navy excepted from the provision of ineligibility for Congress,
BURGOYNE, GENERAL, 6, 78. BURNET, MAJOR, 26, 58.
BUTLER, PIERCE, a delegate to the Federal Convention from South Carolina, 106. Attends the Federal Convention, 123. Proposes a rule to provide against absence from the Convention, and an improper publication of its proceedings, 125. Objects to reduce the power of the states, 138, 139. Approves of the distribution of the powers of government, 133. Views on the mode of electing the President, 365, 509. Objects to frequent elections of the President, 339. Desires the power of making war to be vested in the President, 438. In favor of a single executive, 149, 153. Opposes an absolute negative of the President, 153. Proposes to confer on the Presi- dent a power to suspend laws for a limited time, 154. Urges a settlement of the ratio of represen- tation in the Senate before deciding on that of the House, 240. Opposes compensation to sena- tors, 187. Proposes that senators be eligible to state offices, 247. Proposes that the states be represented in the Senate according to their property, 275. Thinks that two thirds of the Senate should make peace without the execu- tive, 524. Proposes that representation in the House of Representatives be according to con- tribution or wealth, 178, 181, 281, 290, 302, 303. Thinks representatives should be ineligible to office for a year after their term, 229, 230. Con- tends that blacks shall be equally included with whites in fixing the proportion of representation, 296, 302. Opposes an election of the representa- tives by the people, 137. Opposes too great a restriction of the right of suffrage for representa- tives, 386. Desires to increase the required period of residence of a representative in his district, 390. Opposes the admission of foreigners into Congress without a long residence, 398, 412. Thinks mem- bers of Congress should be paid by the states, 425. Thinks taxation should be apportioned to repre- sentation before a census, 452. Opposes the power of Congress to tax exports, 454, 461. Views as to the exclusive origination of money bills by the House, 189, 394. Does not desire to have a vote of two thirds to pass navigation acts, 490. Opposes the power of Congress to emit bills of credit, 434, 435. Thinks the regulation of the militia should be left to Congress, 444. Opposes the negative of Congress on the state laws, 174. Objects to inferior national tribunals, 159, 331. Views on the payment of creditors under the Confederation, 469, 471, 476. Proposes that fu- gitive slaves should be delivered up, 487, 492. Wishes the seat of government fixed by the Constitution, 374. Thinks the assent of Con- gress should be required to the inspection laws of the states, 539. Thinks no new state should be erected within the limits of another without its consent, 493. Proposes a ratification by nine states as sufficient, 499.
CADWALADER, LAMBERT, proceedings in re- gard to admission of a British consul, 101. CANADA, proposal to add it to the United States, Certain inhabitants of, ask for grant of land, 83. Indemnity to refugees from, 89. CANALS, power of Congress to make them, 543. CAPITA, vote per capita, in the Senate, 356, 377, 398, 539.
CAPITATION TAXES, how proportioned, 130, 379, 471, 545, 561.
CAPTURES, ordinance of the Confederation regu- lating them, 16, 18. Treaty with the Dutch concerning them, 27. Under the jurisdiction of the judiciary by the Constitution, 128, 187, 192. Congress may legislate about, 130, 378, 436, 561. CARBERRY, leader of the mutiny at Philadelphia, 94.
CARDS exempt from duty, 63.
CARLETON, SIR GUY, his evasive conduct in regard to the murderers of Captain Huddey, 2, 3. His correspondence relative to a settlement of the accounts of the prisoners, 4. Sends the prelimi- naries of peace, 74. Refuses to suspend hostili- ties, 80. Sends a proclamation of cessation of hostilities, 84.
CARMICHAEL, WILLIAM, letters from him, 1. CAROLINA. See NORTH CAROLINA and SOUTH CAROLINA.
CARRINGTON, EDWARD, views as to salaries, 99. Knows Mr. Madison's sentiments, 575, 576. CARROLL, DANIEL, represents Maryland in Congress, 1. Reports against the proposal of Pennsylvania to provide for public creditors with- in the state, 5. Advocates coercive measures against Vermont, 10. Proposes a letter to the governor of Rhode Island relative to Mr. How- ell's publications, 15. Considers an impost the only practicable tax, 55. Remarks on the conduct of the American commissioners at Paris, 74. Remarks on the proportion of freemen to slaves in apportioning the representation of the states, 79. Remarks on disbanding the army, 89. Pro- poses that there be no foreign ministers except on extraordinary occasions, 90. Attends the Federal Convention, 287. In favor of choosing the President by electors chosen by lot from the national legislature, 362. Advocates an election of President by the people, or by electors chosen by them, 472, 473. Is in favor of a negative on the acts of Congress, 430. Doubts relative to the senators voting per capita, 357. Proposes that senators may enter their dissent on the journal, 407. Proposes to confine the yeas and nays to the House of Representatives, 407. Does not think the apportionment of representation before a census should be a rule for taxation, 451. jects to members of Congress being paid by the states, 426. Thinks a vote of two thirds should be required to expel a member of Congress, 407. Remarks on bills of attainder and ex post facto laws, 463. Thinks more than a majority should be required in certain cases, 432. The discrimi- nation as to money bills, a continual source of difficulty, 420. Opposes the provision to dis- qualify persons having unsettled accounts from being members of Congress, 372. Thinks the states should be guarantied against violence, 333. Thinks the states should be allowed to lay ton- nage duties, to clear harbors, and build light- houses, 548. Desires a regulation as to the trade between the states, 478, 503. Views in regard to the large territorial claims of the states, and the public lands, 494, 496. Views in regard to the ratification of the Constitution, 452, 499. Thinks an address to the people should accompany the Constitution, 546.
CASES within jurisdiction of the judiciary, 128, | COCOA, duty on, proposed, 67.
131, 187, 188, 205, 208, 332, 376, 380, 462, 471, 483, 535, 563. CATILINE, 153.
CENSUS, triennial, proposed under the Confedera- tion, 64. As fixed by Congress in 1783, 82. Provision to be made for, in the Constitution, 129, 130, 375, 379. Senate to be apportioned after it by the representatives, 131. Representation to be apportioned by it, 279, 288, 294, 302, 305, 307, 316, 375, 377, 379, 559. Term of, 302, 305, 316, 375, 379, 559. Direct taxation to be apportioned by it, 304, 305, 306, 375, 379, 559. When the first one shall be made, 379, 451, 559. CESSATION of hostilities, 80, 84. CESSION. See LANDS, PUBLIC. CERTIFICATES, of loan-office, 54, 60, 83.
be given at a certain rate for paper money, 7, 14. To the army not to be paid to the states, 88. To the army for lands, 90. CHARLEMAGNE, 200.
CHARLESTON, its evacuation, 25.
CHARTER, powers of Congress in regard to, 440. CHESAPEAKE, jurisdiction over, 114. CHIEF JUSTICE, to preside on the impeach- ment of the President, 507, 559. To be a mem- ber of the executive council, 442, 445, 446, 462. To be a provisional successor of the President, 480. CHITTENDEN, THOMAS, 14, 25.
CINCINNATI, dangerous influence of that so- ciety, 367, 368.
CITIZEN, President to be, 462, 507, 562. Repre- sentatives to he, 129, 370, 376, 377, 389, 411, 559. Senators to be, 129, 370, 376, 377, 398, 414, 559. Of each state to have the privileges and iminu- nities of the others, 132, 381, 563. Of different states within the jurisdiction of the national judiciary, 128, 187, 380, 483, 563. Committing crimes in another state to be deemed guilty as if they had been committed by a citizen of the state, 192, 381.
CIVIL LIST, reduction of, 99.
CLARK, ABRAHAM, objects to military meas- ures against Vermont, 9, 10. Vindicates the propriety of making public the negotiations with Sweden, 13. Proposes to exempt the American commissioners from the control of France, 18. Remarks on the conduct of the commissioners at Paris, 68, 73, 75. Proposes to submit the im- post separately to the states, 73. Proposes to limit the apportionment, 77. Opposes the state debts being included in the general provision for the public debt, 78. Advocates an apportion- ment by numbers, 79. Urges the settlement of a system relative to public lands, 83. Remarks on disbanding the army, 89. Remarks on the ces- sion of public lands, 91, 92. Proposes a re- moval of the military stores from Springfield, 97. Remarks on the admission of a British consul, 101. Remarks on the negotiation relative to Mississippi, 102, 104.
CLARK, GENERAL, seizure of Spanish property, 100.
CLASSES, Senate divided into, 129, 241, 245, 270, 377, 397, 541, 559. States divided into, for the choice of senators, 171, 174.
CLEARANCE of vessels trading between the states, 479, 484, 502, 561.
CLINTON, GEORGE, his letter relative to Fed- eral Constitution, 574.
CLYMER, GEORGE, represents Pennsylvania in the Congress of the Confederation, 1. Spoken of as secretary of foreign affairs, 16, 91. Attends the Federal Convention, 124. Objects to ap- pointments by the Senate, 517. His views as to a duty on exports, 453. Prefers that the term "slaves" should not be introduced, 477. Views as to commercial regulations between the states, 487, 489. Views as to the ratification of the Constitution, 501, 534.
COERCION of the states by the general govern ment, 127, 140, 171, 192, 200, 217, 218.
COIN, to be regulated by Congress, 130, 378, 434 560. Congress to legislate on counterfeiting, 130, 378, 436, 560. The only tender by the states, 131, 381, 484, 561. Not be made by the states, 381, 546, 561.
COLONIES, their state before the revolution, 109. British, early design to tax them, 110. Nega- tive of Parliament on their laws, 173. Their mode of granting supplies, 180. Effect of the separation from Great Britain on their mutual independence, 213, 286. Trade with the West Indies proposed, 19, 119.
COLLECTION, of the duties and taxes by Con- Of reve- gress, 130, 191, 378, 432, 462, 506, 560. nue, jurisdiction over, 188, 192. Of taxes, to be for debt and necessary expenses, 462, 506. COLLECTORS, on the appointment of by Con- gress, 33, 63, 64, 65. Advocated by Mr. Hamil- ton, 35. Appointed by the states, 49, 54. COLLINS, JOHN, opposes the commutation of half pay, 57.
COLUMBIA, DISTRICT OF, Congress may es- tablish, and have jurisdiction over, a seat of government, 130, 511, 561. A seat of govern- ment to be fixed by the Constitution, 374, 511. COMMAND of the army and navy in the Presi- dent, 131, 205, 380, 562. Of the militia in the President, 131, 380, 480, 562.
COMMERCE, effect, during the Confederation, of regulations of, upon the states, 113, 119, 120. Regulations of, proposed to be made at Annapolis, 113. How regulated among the states by the Confederation, 115, 118, 119, 126. Could not be properly regulated under the Confederation, 127. To be regulated by Congress, 130, 192, 378, 433, 434, 534, 553, 560. Certain regulations of, to be by two thirds of Congress, 130, 379, 489, 552. Du- ties and imposts to be laid and collected by Congress, 130, 191, 378, 544, 560. Department of, 466. Regulations of that between the states, 378, 433, 454, 478, 484, 486, 489, 502, 538, 540, 545, 548, 561. With the Indians, 439, 462, 507, 560.
COMMERCIAL TREATY with the Dutch, 27. With Austria, 52. With Russia, 84, 89. With the British, 88, 101.
COMMISSION, of Mr. Oswald, 16. To be given to officers by the President, 131, 380. To be in the name of the United States, 446. When it expires in a recess of the Senate, 524, 563. COMMISSIONERS on the boundary of Maryland and Virginia, 114. On the negotiations at Paris, 65. Control of France over them, 18, 36. Con- duct of those at Paris, 65, 68, 73, 74. On the adjustment of debts of the states, 86. On the cession of western lands, 92. On the valuation of lands, 48.
COMMITTEE- In the Congress of the Confedera- tion. On the resolutions of Virginia as to the export of tobacco, 48. On proceedings of execu tive departments, 80, 91. On a reorganization of the Court of Appeals under the Confederation, 2. On the differences between New York and Vermont, 4. On a valuation of land as a basis of taxation, 5, 24, 34, 43, 45, 46. On the frank- ing privilege, 12. On the plan for permanent revenue, 18. On the memorial and deputation from the army, 20, 21, 22, 23. On the finances, 21, 80, 91. On increasing foreign loans, 26. On the treaty of commerce with the Dutch, 27. On the purchase of books by Congress, 27. On the seizure of goods sent to prisoners under pass- port, 28, 50. On the means of restoring public credit, 57. On the discontents in the army at Newburg, 66. On a general arrangement of the government, consequent on the peace, 82. On a system relative to the public lands, 84, 92. On the ratification of provisional articles, 85. On the mutinous conduct of troops at Philadelphia,
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