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title:	“Notes on Debates by Pierce Butler”
authors:	Pierce Butler
date written:	1787-6-29

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transcription citation:	Butler, Pierce. "Notes on Debates by Pierce Butler." Supplement to Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Ed. James H. Hutson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. 128. Print.
manuscript source:	Photostat, Library of Congress

Notes on Debates by Pierce Butler (June 29, 1787)

Ellsworth. The second Branch to be a Check on the first. To Establish a National Legislature that shall reach property. If We do not go upon a system that shall establish bad habits.