present as the future, 414. Views as to provisions about slaves, 459, 478. Prefers a provision that the claims to the public lands shall not be affected by the Constitution, 497.
BALLOT, mode of voting by in Congress, 382, 436, 472, 520. President to be chosen by, 507, 512, 514, 520, 562. President to be chosen by electors by, 143, 507, 520, 562. President to be chosen by the state legislatures by, 359, 472. President to be chosen by Congress by, 380. Electors of President to be chosen by, 514. Senators to be chosen by, 129. Congress to appoint a treasurer by, 130, 373, 434. Committees of the Convention chosen by, 125.
BANK, promised by P. Webster, 117. Remarks upon in the Federal Convention, 544.
BANKRUPTCY, laws for, needed under Confederation, 120. Congress to establish a uniform law of, 488, 503, 504, 560.
BARCLAY, THOMAS, 14.
BARNEY, CAPTAIN, 65.
BASSET, RICHARD, attends the Federal Convention, 123.
BEAUMARCHAIS, 82.
BEDFORD, GUNNING, remarks on the terms of cession of the public lands by Virginia, 92, 93. Attends the Federal Convention, 124. Denies the right of the Convention to change the principle of the Confederation, 268. Opposes a negative of Congress on the state laws, 173. Insists on an equal suffrage of the states, 173, 267, 277. Accuses the large states of seeking to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the small, 267. Threatens an alliance of the small states with foreign powers, if oppressed by the large ones, 268. Explains his remarks as to the circumstances which would justify the small states in a foreign alliance, 277. Wishes to define more accurately the legislative power of Congress, 320. Opposes the conferring of the appointing power too entirely on the President, 329. Prefers three years as the executive term, 143. Advocates the removal of the President by Congress, on application of the states, 147. Opposes any negative on the legislature, 153.
BEHAVIOR, judges to continue during good, 128, 131, 156, 190, 205, 330, 376, 380, 481, 563. Senate to hold during good, 205, 241. President to hold during good, 325, 313. Of members of Congress, 378, 406, 560.
BENSON, EGBERT, views relative to Spain and Mississippi, 103.
BIENNIAL election of representatives, 183, 224, 375, 377, 558. Term of President, 335.
BILLS, each House to have a negative on them, 377, 382. Mode of passing them, 378, 428, 560. To be revised by the President, 130, 151, 190, 205, 328, 348, 349, 358, 376, 378, 534, 560. To be examined by a council of revision, 128, 151, 153, 164 344, 428. Those returned by the President may be repassed, 130, 151, 154, 328, 349, 376, 378, 379, 534, 536, 540, 560. Of attainder and ex post facto, 462, 485, 488, 528, 546, 561. Of exchange, damages on, 488. Origination of those about money, 129, 188, 274, 282, 310, 316, 375, 377, 394, 396, 410, 415, 422, 427, 452, 510, 529, 560. Alteration of those about money, 274, 316, 375, 377, 394, 410, 415, 420, 428, 510, 529, 560. Proportional vote on those about money, 266. Of credit, emission of by Congress, 130, 428, 434. Of credit, emission of by the states, 131, 432, 484, 561.
BILLS OF EXCHANGE, provision in regard to, proposed in the Constitution, 488.
BILL OF RIGHTS, proposal to insert one in the Constitution, 538. Want of one objected to, 566, 573.
BINGHAM, WILLIAM, desires division of Confederacy, 96. Interview with Guardoqui relative to negotiations with Spain, 97.
BISHOP, 572.
BLACKS. See Slaves.
BLAIR, JOHN, attends the Convention, 123.
BLAND, THEODORICK, reports that Virginia cannot pay her quota, 33. Prefers the mode of raising revenue provided by the Confederation, 34. His views on a system of permanent revenue, 39, 41, 49, 52, 78. Advocates a commutation of half pay, 45. Advocates a decision by a majority of states in committee, 45. Proposes a tariff of specific duties, 51. Opposes a limitation as to the duration of impost, 52. Censures the conduct of Robert Morris, 62, 67. Remarks on the conduct of the American commissioners at Paris, 70, 74, 75. Promises to submit the impost separately to the states, 73. Remarks on the proportion of freemen to slaves in fixing the contributions of the states, 79. Proposes the publication of Carleton's letters refusing to suspend hostilities, 81. Opposes the proposed Convention of Eastern States, 81. Opposes a hasty ratification of the provisional articles, 86. Remarks on cessions of public lands by the states, 87, 92. Moves to erase the application to France for a loan of three millions, 88. Opposes a delivery of the prisoners till slaves are restored, 88. Remarks on the votes of the new states, 92. Voted for as President of Congress, 1.
BLOUNT, WILLIAM, attends the Federal Convention, 205. Agrees to sign the Constitution in the form proposed, 556.
BOND, PHINEAS, discussion as to his admission as consul, 101.
BOOKS, proposal for Congress to purchase, 27.
BORROWING, power of, given to Congress, 130, 378, 560.
BOUDINOT, ELIAS, represents New Jersey in Congress, 1. Is chosen president, 1. His views on a system of permanent revenue, 39.
BOUNDARY with the Spanish settlements, 97, 101. Between Virginia and Maryland, 114. Of the states on the west, 87, 93, 97, 101.
BRANCH. See House of Representatives. To be two in the legislature, 127, 129, 135, 166, 189, 195, 196, 205, 214, 216, 218, 242, 375, 377, 382, 558.
BRANDY, duty on, 61, 63.
BREACH of the peace, members of Congress may be arrested for, 130, 378, 560. Of the Articles of Confederation, its effect, 206, 214.
BREARLY, DAVID, attends the Federal Convention, 123. Desires the attendance of the New Hampshire delegates, 261. Advocates equality of representation of the states in Congress, 175. Objects to the ballot for the election of President being joint, 472. Advocates an equal vote of the states in electing the President, 473. Wishes the article providing for amendments of the Constitution struck out, 552.
BRIBERY, President to be removed for, 131, 380, 480, 507, 528, 563.
BRITISH, intrigue to create distrust among the allies, 65. Try to effect a separate convention, 76. Promote mediation of Russia and Austria, 1. Commission Mr. Oswald to treat, 16, 65. Sign preliminaries of peace, 74, 84. Refuse to suspend hostilities, 80. Issue proclamation of peace, 84. Commercial treaty with, proposed, 88, 101. Delivery of posts, negroes, &c., 88, 98, 575. Insidious conduct relative to the articles of treaty, 89, 98. Designs upon the western territory, 97. Operation of the definitive treaty on the states, 98. Their claims under the definitive treaty, 119, 575. Colonies, their state before the revolution, 109. Early design to tax the colonies, 110. Their irritating commercial regulations, 119, 567. Complain of violations of the definitive treaty, 119. Speculate on the downfall of the Confederation, 120. Their Constitution discussed in the Federal Convention, 163, 202, 229,
