The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCCVII
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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.
- ↑ Annals of Congress, Eighth Congress, First Session, 284.