Source & Citation Info

title:	“Motion by James Madison”
authors:	James Madison
date written:	1787-9-7

permanent link to this version:	https://consource.org/document/motion-by-james-madison-1787-9-7/20130122075733/
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transcription citation:	Madison, James. "Motion by James Madison." Supplement to Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Ed. James H. Hutson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. 262. Print.

Motion by James Madison (September 7, 1787)

But no Treaty (of peace) shall be made without the concurrence of the House of Representatives, by which the territorial boundaries of the U. S. may be contracted, or by which the common rights of navigation or fisheryrecognized to the U. States by the late treaty of peace, or accruing to them by virtue of the laws of nations may be abridged