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Extract from Jonathan Elliot’s Debates, 16 July 1788

Extract from Jonathan Elliot’s Debates

Poughkeepsie, Wednesday, 16 July 1788

[JJ joined the debate in support of John Sloss Hobart’s motion for adjournment, urging the delegates to return home and consult their constituents about the changed situation. The motion to adjourn is defeated.]

The hon. Judge Hobart brought forward a motion for adjournment. On this motion large debates took place, in which Mr. Hobart, Mr. Duane, Mr. Lansing, Jr. Jay, the Chancellor, Mr. Hamilton, and Mr. Bay, were engaged.

The motion was rejected.

PtD, Elliot, Debates description begins Jonathan Elliot, ed., The Debates in the Several State Conventions, on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, as recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia, in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin’s Letter, Yates’s Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of ’98–’99, and other Illustrations of the Constitution. (2nd ed., 5 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1836–45) description ends , 2: 411.

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    “Extract from Jonathan Elliot’s Debates, 16 July 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-05-02-0028. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 5, 1788–1794, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, p. 45.]