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Topic: The American Revolution and Constitution

CLXXVI.: Caleb Strong in the Massachusetts Convention. 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.

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CLXXVI.

Caleb Strong in the Massachusetts Convention.1

Mr. Strong. This mode of census is not new. Our General Court have considered it, and the General Court have agreed. The southern States have their inconveniences; none but negroes can work there; the buildings are worth nothing. When the delegates were apportioned, forty-thousand was the number. Massachusetts had eight, and a fraction; New Hampshire two, and a large fraction. New Hampshire was allowed three; Georgia three, &c. Representation is large enough, because no private local interests are concerned. Very soon, as the country increases, it will be larger. He considered the increasing expense.

[1 ]Debates and Proceedings in Convention of Massachusetts in 1788. Edit. 1856, p. 303.