on the subject of the executive, 331, 361, 430, 473, 517. Approves of the appointment of a Vice-President, 522. Opposes an equality of suffrage for the states, 135, 277. Desires that the Senate should be an aristocratic body, 271. Wishes the Senate to be appointed for life, 271. Wishes the Senate to be appointed by the President, 272. Disapproves of appointments by the Senate, 350, 467. Prefers three senators from each state rather than two, 356. Objects to the dissent of senators being entered on the Journal, 407. Views in regard to the Senate, 516, 526. Contends for a representation according to property as well as numbers, 278, 297. Reports a plan for the ratio of representation in the House, both before and after a census, 287. Urges periodical adjustment of representation, 288. Is opposed to restraining Congress too much in regard to future adjustments of representation, 293, 298. Proposes that representation and direct taxation should be estimated by the same rule, 301, 302. Wishes the powers of the government settled before the question of representation is finally decided, 319. Thinks that representation should be apportioned to freemen, 392. Objects to a property qualification for members of Congress, 370. His remarks on the negative of each House on the other, 382. Objects to fixing the time for the meeting of Congress, 383, 384. Urges a freehold qualification for electors of representatives, 386. Objects to residence being a necessary qualification for a representative, 389. Wishes the legislature to be left at large to fix the qualifications of its members, 404. Thinks a quorum in Congress should be less than a majority, 405. Thinks a majority should be allowed to expel a member of Congress, 407. Thinks the yeas and nays in Congress might be required by one member, 407. Objects to the exclusion of foreigners from Congress being retrospective, 412, 413. Objects to making officers of the army and navy ineligible to Congress, 422, 425. Suggests the propriety of requiring three fourths of each House to repeal laws when the President does not concur, 429, 536, 537. Objects to making members of Congress ineligible to office, 505. Disapproves of exclusive origination of money bills by the representatives, 282, 283, 394, 397, 416. Opposes too great a restraint on Congress as regards state laws, 320. Opposes a negative by Congress on state laws as unnecessary, 321, 468. Opposes the prohibition to tax exports, 433, 454. Opposes the power of Congress to emit bills of credit, 434. Advocates the power in Congress to subdue rebellions, 438. Opposes a power in Congress to enact sumptuary laws, 447. Remarks on attainders and ex post facto laws, 462. Desires a provision for the debts and engagements of the Confederation, 464, 476. Desires the introduction of the term "slaves," in the provisions respecting them, 477, 478. Proposes a provision in regard to suspending the writ of habeas corpus, 484. Objects to a prohibition on the states in regard to laws affecting contracts, 485. Thinks the states should be prohibited from taxing exports or imports, 487. Proposes a provision relative to the judicial and legislative acts of the states, 488, 504. Objects to any provision tending to injure navigation, 489. Approves of a provision prohibiting a religious test, 498. Approves of a uniform bankrupt law, 504. Prefers an appointment of judges by the President with the advice of the Senate, 330. Objects to the limitation on Congress to increase the compensation of the judges, 331, 482. Approves of inferior national courts, 331. Opposes the removal of the judges on application of Congress, 481. Views as to the provisions respecting treason, 448, 449, 450. Objects to a guaranty in regard to the existing laws of the states, 332. Views on the treaty power, 524, 596. Proposes that treaties be ratified by law, 459. Views as to annexing conditions with new states on their admission, 288, 298, 492. Views as to provisions in regard to the territory and public lands of the United States and the states, 493, 495, 497. Thinks assent of the states should be required for purchases therein, 512. Opposes rotation in office, 366. Thinks Congress should be at liberty to call a convention to amend the Constitution, 498. Proposes to submit the Constitution to a second general convention, 356. Views as to the moan of ratifying the Constitution, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502. Views on the Constitution as adopted, 556. Suggests the form of signing the Constitution, 555. Signs the Constitution, 565. Examines Mr. Madison's report of his speech of May 2, 1787, 122.
MORRIS, ROBERT. See Finance. Dr. Lee inimical to him, 62, 80. His character and services vindicated, 62. Proposes a credit to the states redeeming more than their quotas, 7. Represents his difficulties and the impossibility of relieving the army, 21. Lays the state of the finances before a committee of Congress, 21, 26. Conference with him on the arrears of the army, 24. Communicates to Congress his intention to resign, 29, 62. Makes a provision privately for paying a portion of the arrears to the army, 30. Proposes a general system of revenue, 64. Represents the low state of public credit, 67. Call by Dr. Lee for a specific report from, 88. Congress examines the department of finance, 88, 91. Attends the Federal Convention, 123. Proposes Gen. Washington as President, 123. Objects to equal vote of large and small states in the Convention, 125. Proposes that the term of the Senate be during good behavior, 241. Signs the Constitution, 565. Not a native of the United States, 412.
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NANTUCKET applies for licenses for whalers, 73.
NASH, ABNER, represents North Carolina, in Congress, 1. Sent to Rhode Island to urge impost, 14. Voted for as president of Congress, 1.
NATIONS. See Law of Nations.
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, Mr. Madison's views as to what its powers should be, 107.
NATIONAL SYSTEM, objected to, in the designation of the government, 132, 214. Compared with a federal one, 133, 191, 193, 198, 199, 206, 214, 220, 256. Not to encroach unnecessarily on the states, 139. Requires to be strengthened against the states, 201, 256. Will destroy the states, 202. Only one fitted for an extensive country, 202. Adopted, in preference to a federal one, 212. Ought not to destroy the states, 212.
NATIVE, members of Congress should be, 398, 411. President to be, 507, 521, 562.
NATURALIZATION, law of, to be uniform, 143, 378, 560. Provision to be made for, 120, 398, 411.
NAVIGATION, licenses to protect whalers, 73. Fostered by treaty with Russia, 89. Of the Mississippi, 97, 100, 101, 102, 105, 107. Protection of, 119. Of the Potomac, 570. Internal, 446. How to be passed in Congress, 130, 379, 461, 471, 489, 534. Compromise between the Northern and Southern States relative to, 460, 461, 471, 489.
NAVY, reorganization of department of, 82. Stipulation against one on the lakes, 89. Power of Congress in regard to, 130, 379, 443, 561. Command of, by the President, 131, 205, 380, 562. Not to be kept by states during peace, 131, 381, 548, 561. Eligibility of its officers to Congress, 422, 425. Superintendence of, 446.
NEGATIVE, of state laws by Congress, 108, 121, 127, 132, 140, 170, 190, 193, 205, 210, 215, 248, 321, 468, 548. Of legislative acts by a council of revision, 128, 151, 164, 344, 428. Of legislative acts by the President, 130, 151, 190, 205, 328, 348, 349, 358, 376, 378, 385, 534, 560. Of the Senate on state laws, 173. Of the Senate on appointments by the President, 349, 507, 523, 562. Of one House on the other, 377, 382, 415. Of the British king, 151, 152, 174, 346. Of Parliament on colonial laws, 173.
