The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/LXXIV
LXXIV. James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson.[1]
I shall I think be strongly impressed in favor of & inclin’d to vote for whatever they will recommend. I have heard from Becly ‘tho’ not from himself (who accompanied the Governour up in expectation of being appointed clerk) they had agreed giving the United States a negative upon the laws of the several States[*] this I shod. think proper—it will if the body is well organiz’d, be the best way of introducing uniformity in their proceedings that can be devis’d, of a negative kind or by a power to operate indirectly but a few months will give us the result be it what it may.
*↑ If it can be done consistently with the constitutions of the several States—indeed it might be well to revise them all—& incorporate the fœdl. constitution in each.
- ↑ Documentary History of the Constitution, IV, 237–238. The portions of the original MS. in cipher are here represented by italics.