Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1: SEE ALSO:

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1

SEE ALSO:

Generally 1.8.18

William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:303--10 (1765)

Articles of Confederation, arts. 8 and 9, 1 Mar. 1781

Alexander Hamilton, The Continentalist, no. 6, 4 July 1782, Papers 3:99--102, 103--5

Records of the Federal Convention, Farrand 1:247; 2:135, 142, 157, 167, 211, 352, 356, 366--67, 382, 408, 470, 529--30, 569, 571, 594, 614

Richard Henry Lee to Samuel Adams, 5 Oct. 1787, Letters 2:444--45

Federal Farmer, no. 4, 12 Oct. 1787, Storing 2.8.44

John DeWitt, no. 4, Fall, 1787, Storing 4.3.21--23

A Georgian, 15 Nov. 1787, Storing 5.9.7

James McHenry, Maryland House of Delegates, 29 Nov. 1787, Farrand 3:149

Luther Martin, Maryland House of Delegates, 29 Nov. 1787, Farrand 3:156--57

Thomas McKean, Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, 11 Dec. 1787, Elliot 2:535--36

Debate in Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 21--25 Jan. 1788, Elliot 2:57--107

Native of Virginia, Observations upon the Proposed Plan of Federal Government, 1788, Monroe Writings 1:366--67

Debate in New York Ratifying Convention, June--July 1788, Elliot 2:330, 331--34, 340--41, 342--47, 350, 351--52, 361--62, 363--65, 366--70, 373, 377--78, 380--81

Debate in North Carolina Ratifying Convention, 26 July 1788, Elliot 4:75--93

An Act Laying a Duty on Goods, Etc. Imported into the United States, 1 Stat. 24 (1789)

House of Representatives, Public Credit, 23--25 Feb., 22 Apr. 1790, Annals 2:1313, 1318, 1324--26, 1327--28, 1334, 1344, 1348, 1354--55, 1538--39

Hugh Williamson, House of Representatives, 3 Feb. 1792, Annals 3:378--79

Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 9 Sept. 1792, Works 7:139--41

House of Representatives, Public Credit, 6--7 May 1794, Annals 4:643--46, 652--53

An Act Laying Duties upon Conveyances of Persons, 1 Stat. 373 (1794)

St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries 1:App. 231--46 (1803)

William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States 79--81 (2d ed. 1829)

James Madison to Professor Davis, 1832, Farrand 3:518

James Madison to John Tyler, 1833, Farrand 3:526--27

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