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 26 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION Tv. eMay MADISON July Mr. Wilson 2ded. the amendment as better expressing the general principle. Mr Govr Morris opposed it. The internal police, as it would be called & understood by the States ought to be in- fringed in many cases, as in the case of paper money & other tricks by which Citizens of other States ma 7 be affected. Mr. Sherman, in explanation of his ideas read an enumera- tion of powers, including the power of levying taxes on trade, but not the power of direct taxation. Mr. Govr. Morris remarked the omission, and inferred that for the deficencies of taxes on consumption, it must have been the meaning of Mr. Sherman, that the Genl. Govt. should recur to quotas & requisitions, which are subversive of the idea of Govt. Mr. Sherman acknowledged that his enumeration did not include direct taxation. Some provision he supposed must be made for supplying the deficiency of other taxation, but he had not formed any3 On Question on Mr. Sheman's motion,' (it passed in the negative) Mss. no. Cont. ay. N.J. no. Pa. no. Del. no. Md. ay. Va. no. N. C. no. S.C. no. Geo. no. [Ayes- 2; noes m 8.] Mr. Bedford moved that the (2d. member of Resolution 6.} be so. altered as to read "(and moreover) to legislate in all cases for the general interests of the Union, and also in those to which the States are separately incompetent," (or in which the harmony of the U. States may be interrupted by the exer- cise of individual Legislation".)8 Mr. Govr. Morris 2ds. (the motion.) Mr. Randolph. This is a formidable idea indeed. It involves the power of violating all the laws and constitutions of the States, and of intermeddling with their police. The last member of the sentence is (also) superfluous, being included in the first. 8e Appndlx A, CXXIII. Madison originally recordeel but struck out that the question was "for post- ponlng in order to take on" 8herman's motion. Revlsecl from fournat,

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