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

by Max Farrand

ⅭⅬⅤ. James Madison to George Washington.^[1]

New York Decr. 20. 1787.

Tricks of this sort are not uncommon with the Enemies of the new Constitution. Col. Mason’s objections were as I am told published in Boston mutilated of that which pointed at the regulation of Commerce.^[2] Docr Franklins concluding speech which you will meet with in one of the papers herewith inclosed, is both mutilated & adulterated so as to change both the form & the spirit of it.

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ⅭⅬⅥ. Ezra Stiles: Diary.^[3]

[December] 21. [1787]. Mr. Baldwin was one of the Continental Convention at Philada last Summer. He gave me an Acct of the whole Progress in Convention. It appeared that they were pretty unanimous in the followg Ideas, viz. 1. In a firm foederal Government. 2. That this shd be very popular or stand on the People at large. 3. That their Object shd comprehend all Things of common foederal Concern & wc individual States could not determine or enforce. 4. That the Jurisdictions & Govt of each State shd be

1. Documentary History of the Constitution, Ⅳ, 416–417.
2. See ⅭⅬⅠ and note 2 above.
3. Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, Ⅲ, 293–295.