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

CCCVII.: Jonathan Dayton in the United States Senate. 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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CCCVII.

Jonathan Dayton in the United States Senate.1

The provision of the Constitution had arisen from an experience of the necessity of establishing a permanent seat for the Government. To avert the evils arising from a perpetual state of mutation, and from the agitation of the public mind whenever it is discussed, the Constitution had wisely provided for the establishment of a permanent seat, vesting in Congress exclusive legislation over it.

[1 ]Annals of Congress, Eighth Congress, First Session, 284.