Article 1, Section 10, Clause 2



Document 3

James Madison, Preface to Debates in the

CONVENTION OF 1787Farrand 3:546--47

The act of Virga. providing for the Convention at Philada, was succeeded by appointments from other States as their Legislatures were assembled, the appointments being selections from the most experienced & highest standing Citizens. Rh. I. was the only exception to a compliance with the recommendation from Annapolis, well known to have been swayed by an obdurate adherence to an advantage which her position gave her of taxing her neighbors thro' their consumption of imported supplies, an advantage which it was foreseen would be taken from her by a revisal of the Articles of Confederation.


The Founders' Constitution
Volume 3, Article 1, Section 10, Clause 2, Document 3
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_10_2s3.html
The University of Chicago Press

Farrand, Max, ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Rev. ed. 4 vols. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1937.

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