The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 2

United States. Constitutional Convention · 1787-07-19 to 1787-09-17 (convention debates recorded; excerpts reflect entries in the official journal as presented here) primary

passage 245 of 266 · Act to which the States by their Legislatures, make themselves parties, becomes a compact from which no one of the parties can recede of itself. > Section. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this (17/35)

appointments, 328; quorum of, debated, 335; power of, in impeachment of President, debated, 335, 336; power of, to amend money bills, 337; to be under oath in impeachment trials, 338.

Letters of marque, power to issue, debated, ii., 191.

Liberty of the press, guaranty of, proposed, ii., 375.

Livingston, William, N. J., attends convention, i., 96; appointed on grand committee, ii., 193; Pierce's sketch of, 209, n.; delivers report on state debts and militia, 209; on committee on navigation acts, 225; submits report on slave importation and navigation acts, 240; on committee on sumptuary legislation, 366.

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