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 666 RECORDS OF THE FEDER3kL COlVEA!TION LEqWEP. qO CONGRESS tion of the President, and should transmit their votes certified signed, sealed and directed, as the Constitution requires, to the Secretary of the United States in Congress assembled, that the Senators and Representatives should convene at the Time and Place asigned; that the Senators should appoint a President o� the Senate, for the sole Purpose of receiving, opening and counting the Votes for President; and, that after he shall be chosen, the Congress, together with the President, should, without Delay, proceed to execute this Constitution. By the Unanimous Order of the Convention Go: Washington Presldt. W. Jackson Secretary .o Coc.ss] In Convention, September 7, x787- Sir, WE have now the honor to submit to the consideration of the United States in Congress assembled, that Constitution which has appeared to us the most adviseable. The friends of our country have long seen and desired, that the power of making war, peace and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspond- ent executive and judicial authorities should be fully and effectually vested in the general government of the Union: but the impropriety of delegating such extensive trust to one body of men is evident- Hence results the necessity of a different organization. It is obviously impracticable in the fcederal government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all- Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with pre- cision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occa- sion this difficulty was encreased by a difference among the

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