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 iECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION 637 Saturday MASON September r$ prieves in cases of treason, until the end of the next ensuing session of Congress. Section 4th of the same Article- Inconsistency between this and the 7th clause of the 3rd section of the ISt Article- amend by inserting after the word office the words -- and dis- qualified from holding or enjoying--any Office of honor, trust or profit under the United States. Article 3rd, section I--before the word diminished-- insert-- encreased or -- In the end clause of the znd section of the 3rd Article-- strike out the word Fact  and insert--Equity. In the 3rd section of 3rd Article--corruption of blood inaccurately expressed; and no exception or provision for the wife, who may be innocent, and ought not to be involved in ruin from the guilt of the husband. Section znd, Article 4th -- The citizens of one State having an estate in another, have not secured to them the right of removing their property as in the 4th Article of the Confedera- tion-amend by adding the following clause: and every citizen having an estate in two or more States shall have a right to remove his property from one State to another. (not proposed) OBJECTIONS TO THIS CONSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT. l There is no Declaration of Rights, and the laws of the gen- eral government being paramount to the laws and constitution of the several States, the Declaration of Rights in the separate States are no security. Nor are the people secured even in the enjoyment of the benefit of the common law <which stands here upon no other foundation than its having been adopted by the respective acts forming the constitutions of the several States). 2x This was written by Mason on the blank pages of his copy of the drak of Sep- tember xz. Mason supplied copies of this in one form or another to several people,and it was finally printed in pamphlet form. Angle brackets indicate additions or changes made before printing. (It is reprinted here frora Rowland's Life of George Mason, II, 387-39o). See above August 3x, and Appendix A, CXXVI, ,CXXXIV, CXX. X�II, CLI, CLV, CXCIV, CCII.

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