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title:“James Wilson's Notes of the Pennsylvania Ratification Convention”
authors:Anonymous
date written:1787-11-27
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"James Wilson's Notes of the Pennsylvania Ratification Convention." The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Vol. 2. Ed. Gaspare J. Saladino and John P. Kaminski. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 1976. 370, 380-81. Print.

James Wilson's Notes of the Pennsylvania Ratification Convention (November 27, 1787)

Whitehill: Moves that reasons for yeas and nays may be entered on the Journals.
McKean: A speech to promote candor and mutual forbearance. No two governments exactly alike.
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Division of the legislative power, into two branches, with a qualified negative highly proper. There should be permanency in the magistracies and stability in the laws.

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