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History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2

Note 239 — Chapter XI

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Elliot, V. 476, 477. Mr. Madison says, "This proposition, as being unnecessary, was disagreed to"; that is, unnecessary as a security of the old debts of the United States.

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