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

CXLI.: James Wilson in the Pennsylvania Convention. 3 - 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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CXLI.

James Wilson in the Pennsylvania Convention.3

Mr. Wilson then moved that the time of meeting and adjourning should be fixed, observing that with respect to the time of adjournment, it had been found necessary in the Federal Convention to make a rule that at 4 o’clock they should break up, even if a member was in the middle of his speech.

[3 ]McMaster and Stone, Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution, 216.