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title:“Jasper Yeates' Notes of the Pennsylvania Ratification Convention”
authors:Anonymous
date written:1787-11-26
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"Jasper Yeates' 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. 366. Print.

Jasper Yeates' Notes of the Pennsylvania Ratification Convention (November 26, 1787)

JASPER YEATES: Miscellaneous notes Mr. Smiley. (The word ("Paragraphs" to be omitted.)
Management.
Object to postponement-to let in a committee of the whole.
Committee of the whole: Objections to-delay and procrastination on one hand, on the other, precipitation and hurry to be avoid.
It takes time and expense.
Paragraphs will not answer the purpose. In a detached point of view, justice cannot be done.
Allegory of the P of Building. One chamber.
If distinct parts to be considered, and objections to parts of each section, time will be given to each member to reflect on all the arguments that have been used-and have reflection before they give their votes.
44 against 24.

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