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

CCLXXIX.: Charles Pinckney in the House of Representatives. 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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CCLXXIX.

Charles Pinckney in the House of Representatives.1

The gentleman from Pennsylvania had said, with great truth, that it was the object of those who formed the Constitution, that the powers of Government should be distributed among the different departments, and that they ought not to be assigned or relinquished.

[1 ]Annals of Congress, Fifth Congress, 2d and 3d Session, II, 1660.