The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CLXXVIII
ⅭⅬⅩⅩⅧ. King and Strong in the Massachusetts Convention.[1]
January 19, 1788.
Rufus King explained and enlarged on the same subject: said that no certain rule ever had been in the power of Congress, therefore laid their taxes as they found the States able; the judgment founded on conjecture; and the money paid considered as so much loaned on credit by each State, and to be settled hereafter. The case of Georgia was, before the war, small; much harrassed by it; since rapidly increasing; the number of representatives no more than what they had, or would have, a right to, considering their increasing population.…
Strong.—A detail of proceedings in Convention about Senate; that Gerry was of the Committee about proportioning the Senate; that the Committee was appointed because the small States were jealous of the large ones; and the Convention was nigh breaking up but for this.
- ↑ Belknap’s Notes, printed in Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings, 1855–1858, pp. 297–298.