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16, 18, 19. Remarks on the conduct of the American commissioners, 66.

MARINE, department of, 442, 446, 462.

MARITIME cases under jurisdiction of judiciary, 131, 380, 563.

MARQUE, LETTER OF, not to be granted by a state, 131, 381, 510, 561.

MARTIN, ALEXANDER, attends the Federal Convention, 123. Desires that ineligibility of representatives be limited to offices created or augmented during their term, 230. Desires to increase the number of representatives from North Carolina, 291. Objects to seat of government being at any state capital, 374.

MARTIN, LUTHER, attends the Federal Convention, 174. Thinks the separation from Great Britain left each state sovereign and equal, 213, 217. His views of the extent of the federal or national government, 217, 248. Opposes any Confederation unless on equal grounds, 267, 270, 311. Is in favor of Mr. Patterson's plan, 191. Is willing to adhere to the compromise giving the small states an equal vote in the Senate, 310. Proposes an election of the executive by electors chosen by the state legislatures, 324. Objects to the reëligibility of the President, 334, 338, 359. Disapproves of the President and judges as a council of revision, 346. Contends for an equal vote of the states in both branches of Congress, 248. Disapproves of the senators voting per capita, 357. Thinks the senators should be paid by their states, 427. Wishes representatives to be elected as the state legislatures direct, 223. Opposes the negative of Congress on the state laws, 248, 321. The effect of the laws of Congress and treaties more exactly defined, 322. Thinks the suppression of insurrections should be left to the states, 333. Objects to Congress introducing military force into a state to subdue rebellions, without its application, 437. Wishes the size of an army in time of peace to be limited by the Constitution, 443. Proposes to raise taxes by requisitions, 453. Thinks the regulation of the militia should be left to the states, 466. Desires a regulation in regard to trade between the states, 478. Wishes two thirds required to pass a navigation act, 489. Urges the appointment of the judges by the Senate, 328. Thinks there should be no inferior tribunals except those of the states, 331. Offers a provision in regard to confessions of treason, 450. Suggests that pardons be allowed only after conviction, 480. Wishes questions of territorial claim left to the judiciary, 497. Objects to oath of state officers to support the Constitution, 183. His views as to the provisions in regard to slaves, 457. Objects to any provision having the effect to guaranty the claims of the large states to the western territory, 493, 494, 495. Wishes the application of state executives for the protection of the general government to be limited to the recess of the legislature, 497. Prefers a ratification of the Constitution by the state legislatures, 500. Dissatisfied with the general character of the Constitution, 501.

MARYLAND, views on a cession of their public lands by the states, 59, 111, 112. Views on a system of general revenue, 59. Opposes a poll tax, 39. Adopts exclusive commercial regulations, 119. Violates the Articles of Confederation, 208. Sends delegates to the Federal Convention, 124, 144. 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. Opinions on the Federal Constitution, 567.

MASON, GEORGE, attends the Federal Convention, 123. Objects to yeas and nays, 124. Objects to a mere Confederation, 133. Opposes unnecessary encroachment on the states, 170. Compares a national with a federal government, 216. Approves of the plan of compromise between the large and small states, 278, 283, 394. Objects to its criminations between the new and old states, 279, 294, 492. Opposed to the aristocratic notions that had been thrown out, 283. For seven years as the executive term, 142. Against, the reëligibility of the President, 143. Views on the election of the President, 143, 324, 365, 308, 508, 512, 514, 515, 519. Objects to a dependence of the President on Congress, 147, 165. Advocates a power to remove the President, 147, 340. Thinks judiciary should be united with executive in a council of revision, 165, 345, 347. Is unwilling to entrust the President with the power to make war, 439. Opposes an executive during good behavior, 326. Views on the impeachment of the President, 340, 528. Is in favor of an executive council, 522. Thinks the power of the Senate in regard to treaties very dangerous, 427, 428. Wishes the Senate appointed by the state legislatures, 240. Suggests property qualification for senators, 247. Thinks three senators from each state too many, 357. Urges the election of the representatives by the people, 136, 161, 223. In favor of fixing the compensation of representatives, 185. Prefers biennial elections of the representatives, 225. Proposes that the representatives be twenty-five years of age, 228. Urges the ineligibility of representatives to office, 229, 230, 232, 233, 420, 506. Opposes a freehold qualification for electors of representatives, 386. Thinks previous residence of the representative in his district should be required, but not for too long a term, 390. Views as to the exclusive right of the representatives over money bills, 396, 397, 415, 427, 452. Wishes the term of citizenship for members of Congress extended, 398, 413. Contends that a quorum in Congress shall not be less than a majority, 405. Approves of the yeas and nays in Congress being required by one fifth, 407. Objects to members of Congress being paid by the states, 426. Thinks the journal of Congress should be published, 408. Does not wish the number of the House of Representatives to be very small, 293. Desires the proportion of representation to be fixed from time to time according to a census, 294. Thinks the number of inhabitants the best rule of representation, 295. Thinks that blacks should, in justice, be counted equally in proportioning representation, but will not insist on it, 302. Doubts whether the rule of taxation should be fixed before a census, 307. Proposes a property qualification for members of Congress, 370. Thinks that persons having unsettled accounts should be disqualified as members of Congress, 370. His remarks on the negative of each House on the other, 382. Objects to fixing the exact time for the meeting of Congress, 383. Urges a prohibition of a tax on exports, 432, 456. Does not wish absolutely to prohibit Congress from emitting bills of credit, 434, 435. Thinks Congress should appoint a treasurer, 436. Views as to a power in Congress to regulate the militia, 440, 443, 444, 545. Desires a provision against a perpetual revenue, 440. Proposes a power in Congress to enact sumptuary laws, 447. Doubts the practicability of a negative in Congress on state laws, 468. His views as to the payment of the debts of the Confederation, 475. Approves of a provision for the general government to suppress insurrection, 332. Objects to the prohibition on the states in regard to laws affecting contracts, 485. Thinks the states should not be prohibited from laying embargoes, 486. Views as to navigation and trade between the states, 490, 538, 540, 552. Wishes the regulation relative to the effect of public acts of the states in each other, to be confined to judicial proceedings, 504. Dislikes the appointment of the judges by the President, 328, 351, 522. Approves of the right of Congress to establish inferior national courts, 331. Opposes an increase or diminution of the compensation of the judges during their term, 482. Prefers the definition of treason in the British statute, 447. His views relative to slaves, 458, 477, 478. Advocates amendment of the Constitution without the assent of Congress, 18, 551. Objects to the seat of government being at any state capital, 374.

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