The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/LXX
LXX. Governor Caswell to R.D. Spaight.[1]
No. Carolina, Kinston, July 26th, 1787.
From the hint you threw out in your first letter I am induced to think that the plan of a National Parliament and Supreme Executive with adequate powers to the Government of the Union will be more suitable to our situation & circumstances than any other, but I should wish also an independent Judicial department to decide any contest that may happen between the United States and individual States & between one State and another; this however is only a hint, you may not see the necessity of it as forcible as I do and I presume ’tis now too late to offer any reasons for the establishment, as that matter I flatter myself is before this got over; all I can say respecting the Convention is to recommend a perseverence to the end, to the deputies from this State.
- ↑ North Carolina State Records, XX, 752.