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

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The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Volume 3, Appendix A
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CXXXVIII. Madison to Pendleton, October 28, 1787
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139116The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Volume 3, Appendix A — CXXXVIII. Madison to Pendleton, October 28, 1787Max Farrand

​ⅭⅩⅩⅩⅧ. James Madison to Edmund Pendleton.[1]

New York Octr. 28. 1787.

I have recd. and acknowledge with great pleasure your favor of the 8th. inst: The remarks which you make on the Act of the Convention appear to me to be in general extremely well founded. Your criticism on the clause exempting vessels bound to or from a ​State from being obliged to enter &c. in another is particularly so. This provision was dictated by the jealousy of some particular States, and was inserted pretty late in the Session. The object of it was what you conjecture. The expression is certainly not accurate.

  1. ↑ Documentary History of the Constitution, IV, 352–353.
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