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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 117 — Thursday June 28th. in Convention

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According to King's Notes, Charles Pinckney spoke after Madison: "Charles Pinckney. The Honors & offices may become the objects of strong desire and of combination to acquire them. If Representatives be apportioned among the States in the Ratio of numbers, the Citizens will be free and equal but the States will be unequal, and their sovereignty will be degraded."—King's Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, i., 610.

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