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To regulate Indian affairs, 439, 462, 507, 560. To make conditions with the new states, relative to the public debt, 492. To make regulations relative to the public lands, 439, 497, 564. To fix the standard of weights and measures, 130, 378, 434, 560. To grant charters of incorporation, 440, 543. To secure copyrights and patents, 440, 511, 561. To promote science, 440, 511, 561. To establish a university and seminaries, 130, 440. To establish, and have jurisdiction over, a seat of government, 130, 373, 439, 561. To appoint to great offices, 442. To provide an occasional successor in a vacancy of the executive, 480, 562. To appoint a treasurer by ballot, 130, 378, 436, 542. To constitute inferior courts, 130, 131, 159, 190, 331, 378, 436, 560. To apply for the removal of the judges, 481. To require the opinions of the judges, 445. To make a great seal, 446. To enact sumptuary laws, 447. To direct a periodical census, 379, 451, 559. To call a convention to amend the Constitution, 498, 530, 551, 564. To make all laws necessary to execute its powers, 130, 379, 447, 561. Not to pass laws on religion, 131, 544. Not to abridge the liberty of the press, 131. To judge of the privileges of its members, 510, 559. First election of, under the new Constitution, 381, 503.

CONNECTICUT, her contest with Pennsylvania, 19, 208. Her delegates in Congress, November, 1782, 1. Opposes a commutation of half pay, 45, 57. Is interested in the establishment of a general revenue, 59. Number of inhabitants and proportion of contribution in 1783, 82. Adopts exclusive commercial regulations, 119. Conduct during the revolution, 265. Proceedings on the Federal Convention, 96, 106. Sends delegates to the Federal Convention, 124, 132, 144. Wishes the Constitution to be merely an enlargement of the Confederation, 191. Proportion of representation in the House of Representatives before a census, 129, 288, 290, 316, 375, 377. Proportion of representation in the Senate before a census, 129. Proportion of electors of President, 338, 339. Proceedings of the legislature on the Federal Constitution, 567. Opinions there on the Federal Constitution, 569, 571.

CONNECTICUT LINE, sends a deputation to Congress, 26.

CONSENT of Congress to certain acts of the states, 131, 381, 484, 486, 547, 561. Of Congress to amendments of the Constitution, 128, 157, 182, 564. Of both Houses to adjournments, 130, 378, 380, 406, 409, 560. Of the Senate to appointments, 131, 205, 328, 349, 507, 523, 562. Of the Senate to pardons, 480. Of the Senate to treaties, 205, 507, 522, 562. Of the states to amendments of the Constitution, 132, 381, 552, 564. Of Congress and the state legislature to the erection of a new state within the limits of a state, 493, 564. Of the states to purchases by Congress, 511, 561. Of the Congress of the Confederation to the Constitution, 532.

CONSOLIDATION, objected to by Mr. Madison, 107.

CONSTITUTION, proposal for a Federal, 81, 96, 114. Proposed at various times, 117. Its necessity, 210, 255, 257, 258, 276. Proceedings of Congress upon it, 566. Mr. Madison's suggestions of a new one, 107. Mr. Randolph's plan of one, 126, 127, 189. Mr. Pinckney's plan of one, 128. Mr. Patterson's plan of one, 191. Mr. Hamilton's plan of one, 198, 205. (Appendix, No. 5,) 584. Objects for which it should provide, 126, 132, 161, 176, 191, 193, 196, 234, 237, 242, 255, 262, 558. The adoption of a good one involves the fate of a republic and the states, 243, 245, 255, 258, 268. Whether it should derive its authority from the people or legislatures of the states, 352, 355. How far it should deviate from the Confederation, 132. It ought not to encroach unnecessarily on the states, 139, 168. Plan of, too extensive, 193, 194. Ought to operate on individuals, not on the states, 133. Its effect on the sovereignty of the states, 212. A national system adopted as the basis of it, 912. Compromise as to the rule of representation under it, 274, 282, 316, 317, 318, 394, 396. Whether representation under it ought to be by a different rule from the Confederation, 134, 190, 248, 250, 260. Resolutions adopted for its basis by the Convention, 375. Committee of detail appointed to draught one, 357. Preamble of it, 376, 382, 558. First draught of it reported, 382. First draught of it referred after amendment to a committee of revision, 530. Second draught of it reported, 535. Second draught of it after amendment, ordered to be engrossed, 555. Final draught of it adopted, 558. Mode of signing it, 555. Mode of submitting it to the Congress of the Confederation, 541. Oath to support it to be taken by the President, 131, 380. Oath to support it to be taken by all officers, 128, 157, 183, 190, 351, 376, 564. Mode of its amendment, 131, 132, 157, 189, 190, 351, 376, 381, 498, 530, 564. Mode of its ratification, 128, 157, 183, 190, 199, 352, 376, 381, 452, 498, 501, 532, 541, 564. To be organized when ratified by a certain number of states, 132, 354, 381, 502, 564. Opinions of the states in regard to, 567, 570, 572, 573.

CONSULS, convention with France in regard to, 20. Admission of British, debated, 101. Cases of, under the jurisdiction of Supreme Court, 131, 380, 563. Appointment of, 524.

CONTRACTS, violated by state laws during the Confederation, 119. Effect of those made by the state legislatures, 354. Private contracts not to be impaired by the states, 485, 561.

CONTRIBUTIONS (see ) should form the rule of representation in the legislature, 127, 134, 178, 181, 260, 276, 281. Of the states, to be in proportion to the freemen and three fifths of the slaves, 192.

CONTROVERSIES, decision of those between the states, about territory or jurisdiction, 131, 379, 471. Between Pennsylvania and Connecticut, 19.

CONVENTION, of the Eastern States and New York proposed, 81, 117. At Annapolis, 96, 113, 114, 118. Proposals for the Federal. 96, 106, 114, 115, 117. Character of the Federal, 122. Members who attend it, 123, 124, 126, 132, 135, 140, 143, 144, 155, 174, 178, 214, 220, 287, 376. Assembles at Philadelphia, 123. Elects General Washington president, 123. Elects William Jackson secretary, 124. Adopts rules, 125, 126. Commences the main business, 126. Extent of its powers, 133, 193, 194, 195, 199, 206, 263, 268. Importance of its decision, 242, 244, 245. Determines to adopt a national, in preference to a federal system, 212. Goes into committee of the whole, 132. Committee of the whole reports a series of propositions, 189. Determines not to go again into a committee of the whole, 191, 382. Clashing opinions endanger its dissolution, 253. Prayers in it proposed, 254. Appoints a committee of one from each state, to suggest a compromise between the large and small states about representation, 277. Secession threatened by some of the members, 278, 317. Adjourns for an opportunity of making a compromise between the large and small states, 318. Informal meeting relative to the representation of the large and small states, 319. Appoints a committee of detail to draught a Constitution, 357. Its resolutions, as adopted after discussion, 375. Refers its resolutions, as adopted, to the committee of detail, 374. Refers the plans of Mr. Pinckney and Mr. Randolph to the committee of detail, 376. Refers the amended draught of the Constitution to a committee of revision, 530. Second draught of a Constitution reported to it, 535. Adopts the final draught of the Constitution, 558. Gives directions as regards its Journals, 558. Provision for its expenses, 510, 512. Second Federal one proposed, 570.

CONVENTIONS OF STATES, Constitution to be submitted to, 128, 157, 183, 190, 193, 214, 353,