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

CLV.: James Madison to George Washington. 2 - 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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CLV.

James Madison to George Washington.2

Tricks of this sort are not uncommon with the Enemies of the new Constitution. Col. Mason’s objections were as I am told published in Boston mutilated of that which pointed at the regulation of Commerce.3 Docr Franklins concluding speech which you will meet with in one of the papers herewith inclosed, is both mutilated & adulterated so as to change both the form & the spirit of it.

[2 ]Documentary History of the Constitution, IV, 416-417.

[3 ]See CLI and note 2 above.