ment of the treasurer by Congress, 543. Moves to lessen the ratio of representation from forty to thirty thousand, 555. Signs the Constitution, 564.
GOVERNMENT, (see System of Government,) to consist of legislative, executive, and judicial powers, 129, 132, 189, 242, 375, 377, 382. Seat of, 130, 374, 409, 561. To be organized when ratified by a certain number of states, 132, 381, 564. Distribution of powers under it, 133, 189, 375, 377. Republican form to be guarantied, 130, 157, 190, 216, 332, 381, 497, 564. Ought to preserve a certain agency of the states, 168, 170, 176, 193, 194, 219, 238, 240, 248, 255. The states should not have too great an agency, 168, 199, 200, 207, 221. Of the territories to be provided for, 439, 564.
GOVERNOR of states to be appointed by the general government, 205, 468.
GRAYSON, COLONEL, 97, 99. Advocates the admission of a British consul, 101. Speaks of a plan for a Federal Convention, 118.
GREECE, 162, 236, 252, 287.
GREENE, GENERAL, Congress express complimentary opinion of, 25, 26.
GRIFFIN, CYRUS, made President of Congress, 570.
GUARANTY, of internal tranquility of the states needed during the Confederation, 120. Of republican government to the states, 128, 157, 182, 190, 216, 332, 381, 497, 560. Of their territory to the states, 128, 157, 182, 190. In regard to the emancipation of slaves, 357. In regard to duties on exports, 357, 379, 561. In regard to the migration or importation of slaves, 379, 561.
GUARDOQUI, Mr., interviews and negotiations with, relative to the views of Spain, 100, 101, 102.
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HABEAS CORPUS, suspension of, 131, 445, 484, 561.
HALF PAY, asked by the army, 24. Report in favor of, 29, 30, 31. Discussed, 44, 57, 61, 64, 72, 73. Amount of, 83.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, advocates exchange of Cornwallis for Col. H. Laurens, 7. Advocates a credit to the states redeeming paper money beyond their quotas, 8. Advocates coercive measures towards Vermont, 12, 44. Urges an adjustment of a plan of revenue, 13. Proposes a revision of the requisitions on the states, 16. Objects to valuation of lands being made by states, 21. Appointed to confer with superintendent of finance on arrears of army, 24. Proposes to classify lands as a basis of contributions of the states, 24, 25. Urges the propriety of stating that loans by France were appropriated to the army, 29. Reports plan for settling arrears due to the army, 29. Urges liberal rate in allowance of half pay to the army, 31. Discusses plan for permanent revenue, 33, 39, 42, 52, 57, 72. Urges collection of revenue by officers of Congress, 34, 35, 65. Suggests tax by Congress on houses and windows, 38. Objects to valuation of lands as basis of revenue 44. Censures the conduct of Vermont, 44. Opposes use of military force to take goods seized while under passport, 50. Advocates debates of Congress being public, 52. Opposes limitation on duration of impost, 52, 54, 65. Opposes appropriation of impost to pay the army first, 53. Wishes other taxes than impost, 55. Mentions determination of army to have their pay provided for, 55. His remarks on Gen. Washington, 55. Proposes promotion of Maj. Burnet, 58. Proposes abatement of proportion of certain states, 58, 62. Vindicates Robert Morris, 62. Remarks on the conduct of the American commissioners at Paris, 69, 75. Disapproves proposed convention of Eastern States, 81, 117. Intimates a wish for a general convention to propose plan of Federal Constitution, 80. Views on proportion of freemen and slaves in fixing contributions of the states, 81. On committee to organize peace establishment, 82. Views on ratification of provisional articles, 86. Draws address of Congress to Rhode Island, 88. Urges fulfillment of provisional article about tories, 88. Proposal of stipulation against naval force on the lakes, 89. In favor of disbanding army, 90. Remarks on cession of public lands, 91. Confers with president of Pennsylvania on mutinous conduct of troops, 92. A delegate to the convention at Annapolis, 115. Draughts address of convention at Annapolis, 115. A delegate to the Federal Convention from New York, 106. Attends the Federal Convention, 123. Proposes William Jackson as secretary of the Convention, 124. Appointed on committee to prepare rules for Convention, 124. His views of a general system of government, 198. Objects to a government merely federal, 199. Objects to government being vested in a Congress, 201. To substitute a general government and extinguish that of the states would be a great economy, 202. Doubts the advantage of the vast apparatus of the states, 202, 212, 220, 223. His opinion of the British government, 203, 226, 229, 244. Does not think that the separation from Great Britain threw the colonies into a state of nature, 213. Effects of a union on the large and small states, 214. Does not think favorably of republican government, 244. His plan of a Constitution, 205. Exhibits a plan of a Constitution to Mr. Madison as that which he designed to offer, (Appendix, No. 5,) 584. His remarks when submitting his plan shown to him by Mr. Madison, 122, 206. Advocates an absolute negative of the executive on the acts of the legislature, 151. The executive should be for life, 203, (Appendix, No. 5,) 587. Disadvantages of a temporary Senate, 203. Proposes the number of free inhabitants as the rule of representation, 134. Advocates same right of suffrage in both branches of Congress, 182. Objects to the election of representatives by the state legislatures, 223. Prefers triennial elections of the representatives, 225. Opposes the payment of the representatives by the states, 227, 228. His views on appointing the representatives to office, 229, 233. Objects to the entire exclusion of foreigners from Congress, 411. Urges a reduction of the ratio of representation in the House, 530. Views on the mode of amending the Constitution, 531, 532. Views on the mode of ratifying the Constitution, 532, 533. Prefers a vote of three fourths to reenact laws returned by the President, 537. Opposes the equal power of the states in the government, 258. Views on the general character of the Constitution, 517. Considers the decision of the Convention as settling the fate of a republican government, 244. Dislikes the plan of the Constitution, but will support it if adopted, 517, 556. Wishes the Constitution to be signed by all the delegates, 556. Signs the Constitution, 564. His reasons for objecting to the motion for daily prayers in the Convention, 254.
HANCOCK, JOHN, 568.
HANNUM, JOHN, seizes goods under passport, 28.
HANSON, JOHN, represents Maryland in Congress, 1.
HARBORS, states to lay duties to clear them, 548.
HARMONY, cases affecting national, to be tried by the judiciary, 128, 187, 188, 190, 332. Cases affecting national, to be legislated upon by Congress, 139, 190, 320, 375.
HARTFORD, convention proposed there, 81, 117.
HAZEN, GENERAL, 83.
HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS, to be appointed by the President, 205. To constitute a council, 446, 462. President to call for their opinions, 165, 442, 446, 462, 507, 525, 562.
HEATH, GENERAL, 572.
HEMP, 89.
HEMSLEY, WILLIAM, represents Maryland in Congress, 1.
