The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCCVII

by Max Farrand

ⅭⅭⅭⅦ. Jonathan Dayton in the United States Senate.^[1]

March 19, 1804.

The provision of the Constitution had arisen from an experience of the necessity of establishing a permanent seat for the Government. To avert the evils arising from a perpetual state of mutation, and from the agitation of the public mind whenever it is discussed, the Constitution had wisely provided for the establishment of a permanent seat, vesting in Congress exclusive legislation over it.

1. Annals of Congress, Eighth Congress, First Session, 284.