Constitutional Convention
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The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The 1787 body of delegates who drafted the constitution and reported it to the people for adoption.
The national convention had sat with closed doors.
That convention were not delegated to adopt or establish a constitution;
The members of the convention, as such, were the mere scriveners of the constitution;
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
French revolutionary governing assembly.
Many causes, and among them that personal friction which is the despair of all who would make History a science, had produced among the peasantry such intensity of hatred to their lord that they were ready to find allies against him anywhere—before the Revolution, in the despotic King and his usurping agents—after the Revolution, in the Convention, in the Jacobin Club, in the Directory, in the Fir …
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The constitutional convention, cited by Hamilton as having preferred concurrent taxing jurisdiction between state and federal governments over subordination of the states.
“The convention thought the concurrent jurisdiction in the case of taxation, preferable to subordination.