[399]. Farrand, Records, Vol. II, pp. 123–124.
[400]. Ibid., pp. 201 ff.
[401]. Ibid., p. 216.
[402]. Farrand, Records, Vol. II, p. 121.
[403]. Ibid., pp. 121–122.
[404]. Debate in Farrand, Records, Vol. II, pp. 123–124.
[405]. See above, pp. 65 ff. The members of the Convention could not foresee the French Revolution which was to break out just as the new federal government was being put into operation in 1789.
[406]. It was a curious turn of fortune that this provision prevented the agrarians and populists in 1894 from shifting a part of the burden of taxes to the great cities of the East. Thus the Zweck im Recht is sometimes reversed.
[407]. Clark, The Records of North Carolina, Vol. XX, p. 778.
[408]. The Federalist, Number 12.