trade an "infernal traffic" 264

And the compromise offends and alarms Virginia 265

Belief in the moribund condition of slavery 266

The foundations of the Constitution were laid in compromise 267

Powers granted to the federal government 268

Use of federal troops in suppressing insurrections 269

Various federal powers 270

Provision for a federal city under federal jurisdiction 271

The Federal Congress might compel the attendance of members 272

Powers denied to the several states 272

Should the federal government he allowed to make its
promissory notes a legal tender in payment of debts?
powerful speech of Gouverneur Morris 273

Emphatic and unmistakable condemnation of paper money
by all the leading delegates 274

The convention refused to grant to the federal government
the power of issuing inconvertible paper, but did not
think an express prohibition necessary 275

If they could have foreseen some recent judgments of the
supreme court, they would doubtless have made the
prohibition explicit and absolute 276

Debates as to the federal executive 277

Sherman's suggestion as to the true relation of the executive
to the legislature 278

There was to be a single chief magistrate, but how should
he be chosen? 279

Objections to an election by Congress 280

Ellsworth and King suggest the device of an electoral college,
which is at first rejected 281

But afterwards adopted 282

Provisions for an election by Congress in the case of a failure
of choice by the electoral college 283

Provisions for counting the electoral votes 284

It was not intended to leave anything to be decided by the
president of the Senate 285