Footnotes
[1] Conway, Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph, ch. ix.
[2] Conway, Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph, p. 78.
[3] Elliot, Debates, I. 227.
[4] Cf. Conway, Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph, pp. 78–9.
[5] For the following debate, Madison's notes (Elliot, Debates, V. 457 ff.) are mainly followed.
[6] Cf. Elliot, Debates, V, passim.
[7] By Charles Pinckney.
[8] By John Dickinson.
[9] Mentioned in the speech of George Mason.
[10] Charles Pinckney. Baldwin of Georgia said that if the State were left to herself, "she may probably put a stop to the evil": Elliot, Debates, V. 459.
[11] Affirmative: Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,—7. Negative: New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Delaware,—3. Absent: Massachusetts,—1.
[12] Negative: Connecticut and New Jersey.
[13] Luther Martin's letter, in Elliot, Debates, I. 373. Cf. explanations of delegates in the South Carolina, North Carolina, and other conventions.
[14] Elliot, Debates, V. 471.
[15] Saturday, Aug. 25, 1787.
[16] Elliot, Debates, V. 477.
[17] Elliot, Debates, V. 477. Dickinson made a similar motion, which was disagreed to: Ibid.
[18] Ibid., V. 478.
[19] Ibid.
[20] Aug. 29: Ibid., V. 489.
[21] Ibid., V. 492.
[22] Elliot, Debates, V. 532.
[23] Ibid., I. 317.
[24] P.L. Ford, Pamphlets on the Constitution, p. 331.
[25] Ibid., p. 367.
[26] McMaster and Stone, Pennsylvania and the Federal Convention, pp. 599–600. Cf. also p. 773.
[27] See Ford, Pamphlets, etc., p. 54.
[28] Ford, Pamphlets, etc., p. 146.
[29] "Address to the Freemen of South Carolina on the Subject of the Federal Constitution": Ibid., p. 378.
[30] Published in the New York Packet, Jan. 22, 1788; reprinted in Dawson's F[oe]deralist*, I. 290–1.
[31] Elliot, Debates, II. 452.
[32] Elliot, Debates, IV. 296–7.
[33] Published in Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788, p. 217 ff.
[34] Elliot, Debates, IV. 100–1.
[35] Published in Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788, p. 208.
[36] Ibid.
[37] Elliot, Debates, III. 452–3.
[38] Walker, Federal Convention of New Hampshire, App. 113; Elliot, Debates, II. 203.
[39] Elliot, Debates, IV. 273.
[40] Updike's Minutes, in Staples, Rhode Island in the Continental Congress, pp. 657–8, 674–9. Adopted by a majority of one in a convention of seventy.
[41] In five States I have found no mention of the subject (Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, and Maryland). In the Pennsylvania convention there was considerable debate, partially preserved in Elliot's and Lloyd's Debates. In the Massachusetts convention the debate on this clause occupied a part of two or three days, reported in published debates. In South Carolina there were several long speeches, reported in Elliot's Debates. Only three speeches made in the New Hampshire convention seem to be extant, and two of these are on the slave-trade: cf. Walker and Elliot. The Virginia convention discussed the clause to considerable extent: see Elliot. The clause does not seem to have been a cause of North Carolina's delay in ratification, although it occasioned some discussion: see Elliot. In Rhode Island "much debate ensued," and in this State alone was an amendment proposed: see Staples, Rhode Island in the Continental Congress. In New York the Committee of the Whole "proceeded through sections 8, 9 ... with little or no debate": Elliot, Debates, II. 406.
[42] South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina. North Carolina had, however, a prohibitive duty.