★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
Auto loaded |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
<!-- ENTER TRANSCRIPTION BELOW THIS LINE --> | <!-- ENTER TRANSCRIPTION BELOW THIS LINE --> | ||
<p>Mr Jefferson and Burr had the same number of<lb/> Votes for president and the choice was left to Congress with whom<lb/> it was reported Burr intrigued and made some promised to<lb/> the federal party to espouse their politics provided they<lb/>gave him their votes: this was promulgated by Alex<hi rend="superscript">r</hi><lb/> Hamilton and ruined Burr with his party, for which Burr<lb/> challenged Hamilton & shot him. </p> | |||
<p>The federal party, as they call themselves, but who<lb/> really ought to be called the British aristocracy party,<lb/> is of old standing and make a formidable stand, on the<lb/> convention that formed the federal constitution, in favour<lb/> of an <add>exact</add> <del><gap/></del> copy of the British Constitution— two powers<lb/> hereditary and only one elective— debating for some days;<lb/> and when they were outvoted by the Democracy they<lb/> had the influence to bring a resolution into the<lb/> convention that nothing that had been said in the<lb/> house should ever go out of it or be published,<lb/> which the Democratic part of the convention have<lb/> religiously kept— not one syllable having yet been<lb/>put into print, though it is said some one of the<lb/> Democratic members has taken down the speeches.</p> | |||
<p>That the sovereignty of the federal Government and<lb/> that of each individual State has already come into collision<lb/> and is liable to interfere <add>with</add> and contradict each other<lb/>(<hi rend="underline"><foreign>imperium in imperio</foreign></hi>, like a watch with two main<lb/> springs) as their affairs became more extensive and<lb/> complicated has been observed as a defect in giving<lb/>so much power to the federal government and perhaps<lb/> after all the old men are dead that labored to form<lb/> the federal Constitution and it ceases to be supported by the<lb/> selflove of the greatest part of the influential men of<lb/>the Union or in other words rests only on its own<lb/> merit the probability is that it will be changed <lb/> and the power of the federation much limited— for it must </p> | |||
<!-- DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE --> | <!-- DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE --> | ||
{{Metadata:{{PAGENAME}}}} | {{Metadata:{{PAGENAME}}}} | ||
Mr Jefferson and Burr had the same number of
Votes for president and the choice was left to Congress with whom
it was reported Burr intrigued and made some promised to
the federal party to espouse their politics provided they
gave him their votes: this was promulgated by Alexr
Hamilton and ruined Burr with his party, for which Burr
challenged Hamilton & shot him.
The federal party, as they call themselves, but who
really ought to be called the British aristocracy party,
is of old standing and make a formidable stand, on the
convention that formed the federal constitution, in favour
of an exact copy of the British Constitution— two powers
hereditary and only one elective— debating for some days;
and when they were outvoted by the Democracy they
had the influence to bring a resolution into the
convention that nothing that had been said in the
house should ever go out of it or be published,
which the Democratic part of the convention have
religiously kept— not one syllable having yet been
put into print, though it is said some one of the
Democratic members has taken down the speeches.
That the sovereignty of the federal Government and
that of each individual State has already come into collision
and is liable to interfere with and contradict each other
(imperium in imperio, like a watch with two main
springs) as their affairs became more extensive and
complicated has been observed as a defect in giving
so much power to the federal government and perhaps
after all the old men are dead that labored to form
the federal Constitution and it ceases to be supported by the
selflove of the greatest part of the influential men of
the Union or in other words rests only on its own
merit the probability is that it will be changed
and the power of the federation much limited— for it must
|
Identifier: | JB/044/135/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
|
044 |
constitutional code |
||
|
135 |
|||
|
001 |
|||
|
copy/fair copy sheet |
1 |
||
|
recto |
f61 |
||
|
13920 |
|||
