1New York Assembly. Remarks on an Act Repealing Laws Inconsistent With the Treaty of Peace, [17 April 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
“Mr. Denning rose to reply. He had no doubt of the gentleman (Mr. Hamilton’s) candour: but he was still of opinion that the laws should be mentioned particularly. He had a proper sense of the importance of the western...
2Constitutional Convention. Remarks on the Term of Office for Members of the Second Branch of the Legislature, [26 June … (Hamilton Papers)
, what followed? The distinction between rich & poor was substituted. He meant not however to enlarge on the subject. He rose principally to remark that (Mr. Sherman) seemed not to recollect that one branch of the proposed Govt. was so formed, as to render it particularly the guardians of the poorer orders of Citizens;
3New York Ratifying Convention. Remarks (Francis Childs’s Version), [20 June 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
then rose. Mr. Chairman the honorable Member, who spoke yesterday,
4New York Ratifying Convention. First Speech of June 23 (Francis Childs’s Version), [23 June 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
On this occasion the members rose from one side and the other, and declared, that the plan reported was entirely a work of accommodation; and that to make any alterations in it, would destroy the Constitution. I discovered that several of the states,...
5New York Ratifying Convention. Second Speech of June 25, [25 June 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
“Mr. JONES rose, and observed, that it was a fact universally known, that the present Confederation had not proved adequate to the purposes of good government. Whether this arose from the want of powers in the federal head, or from...
6New York Ratifying Convention. Fourth Speech of June 28 (Newspaper Account), [28 June 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
...yet he had through the whole of the business advocated the preservation of the State governments, and affirmed them to be useful and necessary. He accused Mr. Lansing’s insinuation as improper, unbecoming and uncandid. Mr. Lansing rose, and with much spirit resented the imputation. He made an appeal to Judge Yates,
7New York Ratifying Convention. First Speech of July 24, [24 July 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
...Smith’s last proposition to the ratification [see note 2], or the one which proposes to adopt with a reservation of a right to withdraw; then Mr. Jay, and after him Mr. Hamilton, rose and declared that the reservation could answer no good purpose in itself—that it implied a distrust of the other States—that it would awaken their pride and other passions unfriendly to the object of amendments...