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15 June 1787
Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822
[New Jersey plan]: Resolved that the Articles of Confederation.... [partial]
In Butler's hand. A partial transcription of the New Jersey plan.
GLC00819.08
1787
Notebook: Comments of the Delegates
A long, narrow notebook, once probably a single folded sheet of paper, now two separate items. The notebook records comments by Lancey [Lansing], Patterson, Randolph, Hamilton, Wilson, Madison, Williams, Sherman and Ellsworth. The first item consists...
GLC00819.09
18 June 1787
Lansing, John, 1754-1829
The Supreme Legislative power of the United States of America...
Hamilton's constitutional plan for two legislative bodies, as Assembly and Senate, and a permanently elected executive. In the hand of John Lansing, Jr.
GLC00819.10
September 26, 1863
Gibson, Randall Lee, 1832-1892
to James Wilson
Colonel Gibson writes from the Headquarters of General Daniel Weisiger Adams's Brigade. Informs Wilson, Assistant Adjutant General of John Cabell Breckinridge's Division, of the details of the recent Battle of Chickamauga. Reports that Adams's...
GLC00821
June 1787
Proposition... from Mr. Franklin [and] Proposition from Mr. Rutledge
Franklin/Rutledge proposals with population figures. Docketed: "Proposition from Doctor Franklin June 30, 87- with sundry reports & Calculations from two Committees." Franklin proposed an equal number of delegates for the second branch of government...
GLC00819.11
20 August 1787
And to make all Laws, not repugnant to this Constitution....
Half sheet of paper signed "P. Butler." A brief fragment concerning Congress' power to legislate. Date from Hutson.
GLC00819.12
21 August 1787
All demands... against the United States
Quarter sheet of paper. Confirming the validity of debts incurred by the previous Congress which will devolve upon the new legislature. With addition in a different hand "The Legislature shall fulfill the Engagements and discharge the Debts of the...
GLC00819.13
The Legislature shall fulfill the foreign engagements...
Quarter sheet, docketed on verso: "The Creditors." The word "foreign" inserted above in pencil. Date from Hutson.
GLC00819.14
25 August 1787
The regulation of Commerce or Revenue...
Half sheet regarding the federal government's regulation of ports. Blank on verso. Date from Hutson.
GLC00819.15
But no regulation of Commerce or Revenue...
Quarter sheet related to #819.15. Denies the federal government the right to give favor to the ports of one state over another. Note that this contradicts #819.15. Date from Hutson.
GLC00819.16
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