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 chosen, as recommended in the above Resolutions, if in their judgment the situation of the Country shall urgently require it.

[Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates, etc., convened at Hartford, December 15, 1814, 25–27. Hartford, 1815.]

, February 10.

The committee to whom was referred the several propositions for the amendment of the Constitution of the United States, adopted by the general assembly of Connecticut, and at their request communicated to his excellency the governor, to be laid before the legislature of this state for their approbation and adoption, beg leave to report, that they have been induced by the untoward circumstances of the times, and the general aspect of our political affairs to consider the same, with a view rather to their general bearing, character and tendency, than to their several intrinsic merits. Under these impressions they are constrained to remark, that the leading purpose, the favorite master principle pervading all the propositions in question, is to reduce