[1] Rhode Island.
[2] New Jersey specifically contemplated a regulation of commerce. See the proceedings of Congress, and those of the States, ante, Vol. I. pp. 361, 367, notes.
[3] Thus, for example, the regulation of commerce was not one of the original purposes for which the Union was formed in 1775 or in 1781. But it became one of the exigencies of the Union, by becoming a national want, and by the revealed incompetency of most of the States to deal with the subject so as to promote their own welfare, or to avoid injury to their confederates. So of a great many other things, for which we must resort, as the framers of the Constitution resorted, to the history of the times.
[4] See the preamble to the act of Virginia, ante, Vol. I. p. 367, note.
[5] See the Resolve of Congress, passed April 18, 1783, proposing to amend the Articles of Confederation. This Resolve was the origin of the proportion of three fifths, in counting the slaves. See post, Chapter II. p. 48; ante, Vol. I. p. 213, note 2.
[6] Madison, Elliot, V. 96.
[7] Ibid. 124.
[8] Elliot, I. 126.
[9] Ibid. 351.
[10] Edmund Randolph. See ante, Vol. I. p. 480.