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.
This convention sat with closed doors, and it was not until near fifty years after the people had adopted the constitution itself, that these private intentions of the framers authentically transpired.
But can the intentions of that convention, attested only by a mere skeleton of its debates, and not by any impress upon the instrument itself, add anything to the words, or to the legal meaning of the words of the 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.