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Subject Area: Political Theory
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Topic: The American Revolution and Constitution

LXIV.: W. R. Davie to James Iredell. 1 - Max Farrand, The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 3 [1911]

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The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911). Vol. 3.

Part of: The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 3 vols.

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LXIV.

W. R. Davie to James Iredell.1

The two great characters you inquire after move with inconceivable circumspection. This hint will satisfy you. Their situations, though dissimilar, are both peculiar and delicate.

I shall not stay until the business is finished. I am sorry it will be out of my power. As soon as the general principles are established I shall set out.

[1 ]McRee, Life and Correspondence of James Iredell, II, 165.