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Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 5
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To Edmund Randolph
November 18, 1787
Opinions on Federal Constitution.
NEW YORK, November 18, 1787
Dear Sir,—I have not, since my arrival, collected any additional information concerning the progress of the Federal Constitution. 1 discovered no evidence, on my journeythrough New Jersey, that any opposition whatever would be made in that state. The Convention of Pennsylvania is to meet on Tuesday next. The [p.569] members returned, I was told by several persons, reduced the adoption of the plan in that state to absolute certainty, and by a greater majority than the most sanguine advocates had calculated. One of the counties, which had been set down by all on the list of opposition, had elected deputies of known attachment to the Constitution.
I do not find that a single state is represented except Virginia, and it seems very uncertain when a Congress will be made. There are individual members present from several states; and the attendance of this and the neighboring states may, I suppose, be obtained, when it will produce a quorum.
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Chicago: Elliot, Jonathan, ed., "To Edmund Randolph November 18, 1787," Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 5 in The Debates in the Several State Conventions, on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, as Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia, in 1787, ed. Jonathan Elliot (Philadelphia: J. B. Lipincott Company, 1901), Original Sources, accessed October 4, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LJTVG1YIIUZW3V8.
MLA: . "To Edmund Randolph November 18, 1787." Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 5, edited by Elliot, Jonathan, in The Debates in the Several State Conventions, on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, as Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia, in 1787, edited by Jonathan Elliot, Vol. 5, Philadelphia, J. B. Lipincott Company, 1901, Original Sources. 4 Oct. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LJTVG1YIIUZW3V8.
Harvard: (ed.), 'To Edmund Randolph November 18, 1787' in Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 5. cited in 1901, The Debates in the Several State Conventions, on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, as Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia, in 1787, ed. , J. B. Lipincott Company, Philadelphia. Original Sources, retrieved 4 October 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LJTVG1YIIUZW3V8.
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