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

CCXXII.: Mr. Smith in the New York Convention. 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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CCXXII.

Mr. Smith in the New York Convention.2

4 July 1788

Mr. Smith

“Resolved as the Opinion of this Committee that the President of the United States shall hold his Office during the Term of seven Years & that he shall not be eligible a second Time.”

This he says was at one Time a Resolution of the grand Convention — — (& I suppose we must adhere to that Idea which upon more mature Consideration appeared to them improper.)

[2 ]Documentary History of the Constitution, IV, 734; taken from the Hamilton Papers.