Note 146 — E. CONFEDERATION AND CONSTITUTION
Reading edition
This paragraph was added by amendment (proposed by Mr. Gerry) at the last moment. A more stringent proposition was lost,—viz.: "That until such time as the settlers shall have adopted the constitution and laws of some one of the original states ... the settlers shall be ruled by magistrates to be appointed by the United States in Congress assembled, and under such laws and regulations as the United States, in Congress assembled, shall direct."