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205, 325, 335, 338, 342, 358, 359, 367, 369, 380, 472, 507, 512, 562. Compensation, 128, 145, 190, 192, 369, 376, 380, 549, 562. Compensation not to be increased or diminished during his term, 128, 131, 153, 192, 369, 376, 380, 562. Reëligibility, 128, 131, 140, 142, 149, 190, 192, 325, 333, 335, 363, 369, 375, 380, 472, 473, 512, 517. To form one of the supreme powers of the government, 128, 129, 132, 375, 377, 382. To execute the laws, 128, 131, 142, 190, 343, 369, 376, 380, 563. To posses the executive powers of the Congress of the Confederation, 128. To possess, with a certain number of the judiciary, a power of revising the acts of the legislature, 128, 151, 155, 164, 344, 428. To possess a power to negative acts of Congress, 130, 151, 190, 205, 328, 348, 349, 378, 430, 534, 536, 560. To possess power of suspending laws for a limited time, 154. To have a council, 141, 150, 165, 442, 445, 446, 462. To give information to Congress, 131, 380, 563. To recommend measures to Congress, 131, 380. To commission officers, 131, 380, 563. To receive ambassadors, 131, 380, 479, 563. To correspond with the state executives, 131, 380, 479. To grant pardons and reprieves, 131, 380, 480, 549, 562. To command the army and navy, 131, 192, 205, 380, 562. To command the militia, 131, 205, 343, 380, 480, 562. To take an oath, 131, 380, 481, 562. To appoint to office, 141, 190, 205, 334, 369, 376, 380, 474, 550, 562. Danger of the power of appointment, 154, 474. Responsibility in making appointments, 350. Not to appoint to offices not previously created by law, 474, 528. To make appointments with the consent of the Senate, 131, 329, 349, 507, 523, 562. To appoint the senators, 167. To appoint the heads of departments, 446. To appoint the judges, 155, 328, 350, 507. Danger of allowing him in appoint the judiciary, 351. To remove the judges on application of Congress, 481. To convene the Senate separately, 530. To adjourn Congress in certain cases, 380, 409, 563. To make war, 439. To consult the heads of departments, 442, 446, 462, 562. To consult the supreme judges, 445. To make treaties with the advice of the Senate, 205, 507, 522, 562. To possess a property qualification, 371, 403. May be impeached, 131, 149, 205, 340, 369, 376, 380, 507, 562. To be removed by Congress on application of the states, 147. May be removed from office, 131, 147, 149, 192, 195, 340, 369, 376, 380, 480, 662. His successor in case of vacancy, 131, 380, 480, 507, 522, 562. Ratio of electors of, among the states 338, 339, 507, 562. Election of the first under the new Constitution, 381, 502, 541. Of states to correspond with the President, 131, 380. Of states, their authority in regard to vacancies in Congress, 129, 377, 395, 559. Of states, to be appointed by the national government, 205, 468. Of states to appoint to national offices, 475, 479. Of states to apply to the President to suppress insurrection, 497, 535, 551, 564.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. See.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. See.

EXERCISE of jurisdiction in arsenals, dock-yards, and fortifications, by Congress, 130, 511, 561.

EXPENDITURES, to be made public, 384, 545, 561. To be superintended by a department, 446.

EXPENSES, how apportioned under the Confederation, 63. Proposal to fund them into one mass, 59. Necessary to be paid by taxes, 462. Of the Federal Convention provided for, 510, 512.

EXPORTS, under flags authorized by Congress, 43, 47. Tax on, 130, 302, 357, 379, 391, 432, 454, 486, 535, 538, 545, 561. Compromise between the Northern and Southern States relative to, 460, 471.

EX POST FACTO LAWS, 462, 485, 488, 545, 546, 561.

EXPULSION from Congress, 378, 406, 560.

FAITH, to be given by the states to the judicial proceedings of each other, 132, 381, 488, 404, 563.

FEDERAL UNION, distinguished from an incorporating one. 111. Convention proposed, 96, 116, 117. Convention, its character, 122.

FEDERALIST, Mr. Madison mentions its commencement, 569.

FEDERALISTS, their course in New York, 574.

FEDERAL SYSTEM, such a union not sufficient 132, 206, 207, 219. Compared with a national one, 133, 191, 193, 197, 199, 206, 214, 248, 251, 255. Will not prevent violations of treaties or of law of nations, 207. Not acceded to by the Convention, 212.

FELONY, at sea, within jurisdiction of judiciary, 128, 187, 192, 380. Members of Congress may be arrested for, 130, 560. At sea, to be legislated on by Congress, 130, 378, 436, 543, 561. Fugitives charged with, 381, 487, 563.

FEW, WILLIAM, delegate to the Federal Convention from Georgia, 106. Attends the Federal Convention, 123. Signs the Constitution, 565.

FINANCE, department of, examined by Congress, 62, 80, 91. Increased difficulties, 21, 22, 29, 50, 119. Superintendent declares his wish to resign, 29, 62. Congress discusses plan for permanent revenue, 32, 39, 49, 51, 55, 59, 62, 64. Superintendent proposes general system of revenue, 64. State of, with France, 76. Reorganization of, 99. Department of, under the Constitution, 442, 446, 462.

FINES, to be adjudged by state courts, 192. Relative to the militia, 464, 465.

FISHERIES, Marbois's intercepted letter about them, 16, 18. Licenses to whalers, 73. Drawback on salt fish, 84. Remarks on, 392, 489, 526.

FITZSIMONS, THOMAS, not a native of the United States, 412. Proposes plan for redeeming paper money, 8. Opposes disclosure of negotiations relative to confiscations and British debts. 26. Urges general confidence, in discussing the revenue system, 37. Remarks on refusal of impost and contribution by Virginia, 43. Remarks on export of tobacco under authority of Congress, 47. Opposes discrimination among public creditors, 53, 54. Views in regard to impost, 55, 72. Recommends circumspection in regard to commercial treaties, 85. Remarks on cession of public lands, 91. A member of the committee on the answer to the objections of Rhode Island to the impost, 582. Attends the Federal Convention, 123. In favor of a freehold qualification of electors of representatives, 365. Thinks Congress should be united with the President to make treaties, 523. Objects to requiring the assent of the Congress of the Confederation to the Constitution, 532. Objects to an absolute prohibition to tax exports, 456. Views as to regulating trade between the states, 502. Thinks that full accounts of the expenditures cannot be published, 540. Signs the Constitution, 565.

FLAGS, right of Congress to grant them, 43, 47.

FLEET, may be raised by Congress, 130, 379, 443, 561.

FLORIDA, secret article in treaty with British about, 65, 67, 68, 71, 73, 74.

FORCE, against the states, 128, 139, 140, 171, 192, 200, 217, 218, 343.

FOREIGN, (see ,) succors very tardy, 11. Affairs, department of, 9, 82, 89, 99, 442, 446, 462. Invasion to be guarded against, 126, 127, 333, 379, 381, 497, 561. Debt under the Confederation, 126. Commerce to he regulated by Congress, 130, 191, 378, 434, 453, 489, 559, 560. Influence to be guarded against, 209. Alliance by the small states threatened. 268. Coin to be regulated by Congress, 434, 560.