title: | “President Washington: Message to House of Representatives on Jay’s Treaty” |
authors: | George Washington |
date written: | 1796-3-30 |
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last updated: | Jan. 22, 2013, 8:29 a.m. UTC |
retrieved: | March 28, 2024, 10:41 a.m. UTC |
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transcription citation: |
Washington, George.
"Letter to House of Representatives on Jay’s Treaty."
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787.
Vol. 3.
Ed. Max Farrand.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
1911.
Print.
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"In the Richmond Enquirer of the 21st is an extract from the Report of Secretary Hamilton on the constitutionality of the Bank, in which he opposes a resort, in expounding the Constitution, to the rejection of a proposition in the Convention, or to any evidence extrinsic to the text. Did he not advise, if not draw up, the message refusing to the House of Representatives the papers relating to Jay's treaty, in which President Washington combats the right of their call by appealing to his personal knowledge of the intention of the Convention, having been himself a member of it, to the authority of a rejected proposition appearing on the journals of the Convention, and to the opinion's entertained in the State Conventions?" (Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, III, 515.)