[246] Debates in the Virginia Convention, June 4 and 5, 1788: Elliot (2d edit.), Vol. III. pp. 22, 44.
[247] Ibid., June 4, 1788: Elliot, Vol. III. p. 29.
[248] Yates’s Minutes of the Debates of the Federal Convention, June 29, 1787: Elliot, Vol. I. p. 461.
[249] Ibid., p. 464.
[250] Ibid., June 30, 1787, p. 467.
[251] “‘What is truth?’ said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.”—Bacon, Essays: Of Truth.
[252] Articles of Amendment, XXI., XXII.
[253] Speech on the Representative System, July 7, 1853: Ante, Vol. IV. p. 46.
[254] Notes on Virginia, Appendix, No. II.: Writings, Vol. VIII. p. 443.
[255] Debates in the Federal Convention, July 14, 1787: Madison Papers, Vol. II. p. 1102.