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KENTUCKY, its admission as a state, 356. Remarks of Gardoqui in relation to, 97, 100.

KING. See.

KING, RUFUS, remarks on the insurrection in Massachusetts, 94, 99. Views of the operation of treaties on the states under the Confederation, 99. Views as to salaries, 99. Remarks on the settlement of public accounts, 99. Remarks on the negotiations with Spain, 101, 102, 103. Discusses the vote of the states required to suspend the use of the Mississippi, 103. A delegate to the Federal Convention from Massachusetts, 106. Attends the Federal Convention, 123. Objects to the yeas and nays, 124. Remarks on the nature of state sovereignty, under the Constitution, 212. Wishes the stale governments preserved, but made subordinate, 269. His great anxiety for an harmonious adoption of a Constitution, 266. Views on the compromise between the large and small states, 514. Views as to an election of President, 336, 362, 515. Views as to reëligibility and tenure of the President, 336, 342. Is opposed to the impeachment of the President by the legislature, 341. Objects to an executive council, 523. Contends for a proportionate representation in the Senate, 138, 266, 312. Objects to contribution being the sole rule of representation, 134, 178. Opposes the representation being fixed by the Constitution, 280. Admits that slaves should be considered in apportioning representation as well as taxation, 290. Thinks the question, as to representation, is more between the Northern and Southern than the small and large slates, 290. Does not like numbers alone to be the rule of representation, especially if the blacks are included, 300, 304. Opposes the rule of representation being absolutely fixed by the Constitution, 304. Thinks exports should be taxed, if slaves are represented, 392. Opposes the exclusive right of the House in regard to money bills, 188. Objects to an election of representatives by the state legislatures, 224. Objects to the payment of the representatives by the states, 227. Views as to the ineligibility of members of Congress, 229, 231, 505, 596. Objects to a landed qualification for members of Congress, 371. Does not think annual meetings of Congress will be necessary, 383. Thinks Congress should have the right to alter the state regulations, relative to members of Congress, 402. Prefers allowing a quorum. in Congress to be fixed by law, 405, 406. Thinks the states should not tax exports without the assent of Congress, 486. Thinks the states should not be prevented from encouraging their manufactures, 487. Objects to union of judiciary with the executive in revising the laws, 151, 165. Favors the establishment of inferior national tribunals, 115. Views in regard to punishment of treason, 449, 450, 549. Proposes a prohibition on the states, in regard to laws affecting contracts, 485. Views as to treaties, 524, 526. Remarks on the provision in regard to the militia, 464. Desires a permanent seat of government, 409. Remarks on the assumption of the state debts, 441. Objects to an exemption of slaves from duty, 460, 478. His remarks on slavery, 391. Proposes the assent of the states to purchases of places therein, 511. Thinks a power in Congress to create corporations unnecessary, 544. Views on the mode of ratification of the Constitution, 158, 355, 499, 500. Prefers to submit the Constitution to the Congress of the Confederation, but not to require their assent to it, 533, 540. Signs the Constitution, 564. Course in the Convention of Massachusetts, called to ratify the Constitution, 572.

KNOWLTON, LUKE, charged with intrigues with British about Vermont, 7, 8. His arrest directed by Congress, 8, 31.

LABOR, fugitives from, to be delivered up, 487, 492, 550, 563.

LAFAYETTE, promotes exchange of Cornwallis for Col. H. Laurens, 6. Sends news of peace, 74.

LAND, tax upon, discussed, 34, 37, 40, 67. Mode of valuation discussed in Congress, 21, 24, 43, 45, 77, 78. Qualification in, proposed for members of Congress, 370. Qualifications in, proposed for electors of representatives, 385.

LANDS, PUBLIC, the influence of the question of ceding the public lands on the politics of the Confederation, 111. Proposal to derive a revenue from them, 39, 59, 63. Proposal to adopt a system in regard to, 83. Proposal to give army certificates for, 90. Discussion on the cession of them renewed, 87, 91, 92. Power of Congress in regard to, under the Constitution, 439, 441, 493, 496.

LANGDON, JOHN, attends the Federal Convention, 351. Thinks the ballot in Congress for the President should be joint, 472. Thinks members of Congress should be paid out of the national treasury, 425. Objects to a constitutional provision, requiring a property qualification for members of Congress, 373. Objects to the seat of government being at any state capital, 374. Opposes the power in Congress to emit bills of credit, 435. Approves of the power vested in Congress, to subdue rebellions, 438. Does no distrust Congress on the subject of standing armies, 443. Does not distrust Congress on the subject of the militia, 444, 465. Objects to taxation being proportioned to representation before a census, 451, 453. Wishes the states prohibited from taxing exports, 454. Thinks Congress should have the right to tax slaves, 460, 478. Approves of a negative in Congress on state laws, 469. Views as to regulating commerce between the states, 503, 548. Views as to imposing conditions when admitting new states, 492, 493. Signs the Constitution, 564.

LANSING, JOHN, attends the Federal Convention, 106, 144. Opposes going into a committee of the whole, 191. Objects to the propositions of Mr. Randolph, as amended and adopted, 193. Thinks the Convention limited to the amendment of the Confederation, 193, 214. Proposes that the power of legislation be vested in the Congress, 214. Opposes the negative of Congress on the state laws, 215. Proposes an equal vote of the states in the House of Representatives, 249. Wishes some plan for compromise on the question of representation, 273.

LAWS. See.

LAW OF NATIONS, not sufficiently protected under the Confederation, 127. Congress to legislate on offences against, 130, 378, 561.

LAURENS, HENRY, notifies his intention to return, 1.

LEE, ARTHUR, opposition to Robert Morris, 62, 80. States his objections to a general system of taxation, 34, 38, 56. Suggests that a general revenue system should be framed by the states, 38. Views on a system of permanent revenue, 41, 42. Communicates a letter, relative to an overture from Canada, 45. Remarks on the export of tobacco by authority of Congress, 48. His views on a mode of valuation of lands, 48. Urges a limitation of the impost, 49. Proposes to take, by military force, goods seized while under passport, 50. Proposes to appropriate the impost to pay the army first, 52, 53. Remarks on the original and subsequent holders of loan certificates, 54. Proposes measures against the refugees, 58. Opposes an abatement in the proportion of certain states, 58. Remarks on the conduct of the commissioners at Paris, 69,