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title:“James Madison to George Washington”
authors:James Madison
date written:1787-12-20
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Madison, James. "Letter to George Washington." The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Vol. 3. Ed. Max Farrand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911. Print.

James Madison to George Washington (December 20, 1787)

New York Decr. 20. 1787.
Tricks of this sort are not uncommon with the Enemies of the new Constitution. Col. Mason's objections were as I am told published in Boston mutilated of that which pointed at the regulation of Commerce.1 Docr Franklins concluding speech which you will meet with in one of the papers herewith inclosed, is both mutilated & adulterated so as to change both the form & the spirit of it.
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  • 1 See CLI and note 2 above.

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