The Legislature to appoint courts in each State, so as to make the State governments unnecessary to it. All state laws which contravene the general laws to be absolutely void. An officer to be appointed in each State to have a negative on all State laws. ...
160. Character Sketches of Delegates by William Pierce
Records of the Federal Convention, III, 87 ff.
Pierce was a delegate from Georgia. It is not known just when he composed these sketches.
From New Hampshire.
Mr. Langdon is a man of considerable fortune....
From Massachusetts.
Rufus King, Natl. Gorham, Gerry and Jno. [Caleb] Strong Esquires.
Mr. King is a Man much distinguished for his eloquence and great parliamentary talents. He was educated in Massachusetts and is said to have good classical as well as legal knowledge. He has served for three years in the Congress of the United States with great and deserved applause, and is at this time high in the confidence and approbation of his Countrymen. This Gentleman is about thirty three years of age, about five feet ten Inches high, well formed, an handsome face, with a strong expressive Eye, and a sweet high toned voice. In his public speaking there is something peculiarly strong and rich in his expression, clear, and convincing in his arguments, rapid and irresistible at times in his eloquence but he is not always equal. His action is natural, swimming and graceful, but there is a rudeness of manner sometimes accompanying it. But take him tout en semble, he may with propriety be ranked among the Luminaries of the present Age.