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Extract from John McKesson’s Notes of Debates, 15 July 1788

Extract from John McKesson’s Notes of Debates

[Poughkeepsie, 15 July 1788]

Mr. Jay We are endeavouring to agree— Gent See we have brot forth valuable Amendmts. Cannot the Conditional Amendments be paired down so that we may agree1

We honestly think Congress must reject such an Adoption—Cannot we endeavour further to Accommodate— The Gentlemen have advanced for Accomodation— We have now advanced for Accommodat[ion].

AD, NHi: McKesson’s notes (EJ: 13422); DHRC description begins John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber, and Margaret A. Hogan, eds. Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (28 vols. to date; Madison, Wis., 1976–) description ends , 23: 2179. For the complete notes of debates for 15 July, see DHRC description begins John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber, and Margaret A. Hogan, eds. Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (28 vols. to date; Madison, Wis., 1976–) description ends , 23: 2177–83.

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    “Extract from John McKesson’s Notes of Debates, 15 July 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-05-02-0027. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 5, 1788–1794, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, p. 44.]