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The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 1

Note 99 — Friday June 22. in Convention

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According to Yates, Wilson followed Ellsworth:

"Mr. Wilson. I am not for submitting the national government to the approbation of the state legislatures. I know that they and the state officers will oppose it. I am for carrying it to the people of each state."—Yates, Secret Proceedings, etc., 153.

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