[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.