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

CCCXCVI.: James Madison to Edward Coles. 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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CCCXCVI.

James Madison to Edward Coles.1

It is well known that the large States, in both the Federal and State Conventions, regarded the aggregate powers of the Senate as the most objectionable feature of the Constitution.

[1 ]Letters and other Writings of James Madison, IV, 369.