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

by Max Farrand

ⅭⅭⅬⅩⅩⅨ. Charles Pinckney in the House of Representatives.^[1]

May 10, 1798.

The gentleman from Pennsylvania had said, with great truth, that it was the object of those who formed the Constitution, that the powers of Government should be distributed among the different departments, and that they ought not to be assigned or relinquished.

1. Annals of Congress, Fifth Congress, 2d and 3d Session, Ⅱ, 1660.