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title:	“Jonathan Dayton in the United States Senate”
authors:	Jonathan Dayton
date written:	1804-3-19

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transcription citation:	Dayton, Jonathan. "Jonathan Dayton in the United States Senate." The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Vol. 3. Ed. Max Farrand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911. Print.

Jonathan Dayton in the United States Senate (March 19, 1804)

March 19, 1804.

The provision of the Constitution had arisen from an experience of the necessity of establishing a permanent seat for the Government. To avert the evils arising from a perpetual state of mutation, and from the agitation of the public mind whenever it is discussed, the Constitution had wisely provided for the establishment of a permanent seat, vesting in Congress exclusive legislation over it.