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Report of thE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, CONTINUED. -THE POW-

ERS OF CONGRESS. - THE GRAND COMPROMISES OF THE CON-

STITUTION RESPECTING COMMERCE, EXPORTS, AND THE SLAVE-

General Principles of the Powers of Legislation

Exports and the Slave-Trade

Fitness and Unfitness of a Tax on Exports.

Variety in the Exports of the United States

Impracticability of such a Tax

The Slave-Trade Controversy

Restrictions on the Revenue and Commercial Powers

Regulation of Commerce

Settlement of the Revenue and Commercial Powers

Propositition of Compromise

Arrangement of the Compromise

Value of the Compromise

Benefits of the Revenue and Commercial Powers

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, CONTINUED. -THE RE-

MAINING POWERS OF CONGRESS. RESTRAINTS UPON CONGRESS

AND UPON THE STATES.

Mode of filling the Vacancy when there is no Vice-President .

Mode of choosing the Electors

Opening of the Votes of the Electors

Modifications of the Mode of Election made by the Amendment 400, 401

Contingency, for which no Provision is made

Qualifications for the Presidency

Salary of the President

Question of a Cabinet, or a Council

Powers of the President

Executive Power

Pardoning Power

Treaty-making Power

Appointing Power

To give Information on the State of the Union

Power to convene Congress .

Scope of the Judicial Power

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, CONTINUED. - FORMA-

TION OF THE JUDICIAL POWER.

Intimacy of the Relations between the People of the States.

Difference between the Confederation and the Constitution

Privileges of Citizenship in all the States

Effect of Records

Fugitives from Justice

Fugitives from Service

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, CONTINUED. EFFECT

OF RECORDS. - INTER-STATE PRIVILEGES. - FUGITIVES FROM

JUSTICE AND FROM SERVICE.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, CONTINUED. GUARANTY

of Republican Government and INTERNAL TRANQUILLITY.

OATH TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION. - MODE OF AMEND-

MENT. - RATIFICATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CONSTI-
SIGNING BY THE MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION.

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Purpose of the Guaranty of Republican Government.

Meaning of the Guaranty

American Sense of a "Republican" Government

Amendment a Conservative Element

Distinction between Amendment and Revolution

Settlement of the Mode of Amending the Constitution
Restrictions on the Power of Amendment.

Oath to support the Constitution .

Establishment of the Constitution provided for
Signatures of the Delegates
The Issue presented.

ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION.

Rumors about the Bishop of Osnaburg

Scheme of the Tories

Publication of the Constitution

Its Friends and Opponents

Position of the People

GENERAL RECEPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. HOPES OF A RE-

UNION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. - ACTION OF THE CONGRESS.

STATE OF FEELING IN MASSACHUSETTS, NEW YORK, VIRGINIA,

SOUTH CAROLINA, MARYLAND, AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. AP-

POINTMENT OF THEIR CONVENTIONS.

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474-477

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Delaware ratifies unanimously

Prestige of Philadelphia

James Wilson in the Convention of Pennsylvania

His Defence of the Constitution

Ratification of Pennsylvania

Position of New Jersey

Ratifies the Constitution.

Position of Georgia

Ratifies the Constitution .

Convention of Connecticut.

New Aspect of the Subject .

Convention of Massachusetts assembles

Nature of her Opposition

RATIFICATIONS OF DELAWARE, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY,

GEORGIA, AND CONNECTICUT, WITHOUT OBJECTION. CLOSE

OF THE YEAR 1787.- BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1788.- RATI-

FICATION OF MASSACHUSETTS, THE SIXTH STATE, WITH PROPO-

SITIONS OF AMENDMENT. - RATIFICATION OF MARYLAND WITH-

OUT OBJECTION. SOUTH CAROLINA, THE EIGHTH STATE,

ADOPTS, AND PROPOSES AMENDMENTS.

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