Delegates to the Federal Convention were required by
the legislature to report the proceedings of that body to them, and
it was in this connection that Martin's _Genuine Information_ was
prepared.--_Ed._

59 According to this idea, I endeavored to obtain as an amendment to
the system the following clause: "And whenever the legislature of
the United States shall find it necessary that revenue shall be
raised by direct taxation, having apportioned the same by the above
rule, requisitions shall be made of the respective states to pay
into the continental treasury their respective quotas within a time
in the said requisition to be specified, and in case of any of the
states failing to comply with such requisition, then, and then only,
to have power to devise and pass acts directing the mode, and
authorizing the same in the state failing therein." This was
rejected, and that power, which I wished to have given the
government only in this particular instance, is given to it without
any restraint or limitation in every case.

60 How exactly agreeable to the sentiments of that honourable member
has been the conduct of the friends of the Constitution in
Pennsylvania and some other states, I need not mention.

61 A reference to Alexander Contee Hanson's pamphlet, written under the
pseudonym of Aristides. It is reprinted in Ford's _Pamphlets on the
Constitution_.--_Ed._

62 Printed in _Elliot_, 1, 503.--_Ed._

63 Williamson was a member of the Federal Convention.--_Ed._

64 Following this article was an essay from a New York paper.--_Ed._

65 See page 339.--_Ed._

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