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| D. the general subject discussed, | No. XXXIX. | 268 |
| c. how far considerations of duty might have supplied any defect of regular authority in the Convention, | 272 | |
| A. as its powers were merely advisory and recommendatory, the proposed system is harmless until it shall be approved, | 272 | |
| B. the importance, to the United States, of the result of its deliberations, | 273 | |
| C. the necessity which existed for a radical change in the form of government, | 274 | |
| D. the question whether the Convention exceeded its powers does not affect the propriety of ratifying the proposed Constitution, | 275 | |
| C. the Constitution proposed by the Convention considered, | XL. | 276 |
| a. "the sum or quantity of power which it vests in the [Fœderal] government" considered, | 276 | |
| a. is the aggregate of that power greater than it should be, | 276 | |
| A. the arguments of opponents considered generally, | 277 | |
| B. the objects of those powers considered, | 277 | |
| a. concerning "security against foreign danger," | 278 | |
| i. the power of declaring war and granting letters of marque, | 278 | |
| ii. that of providing armies and fleets, | 278 | |
| i. it must be indefinite, | 278 | |
| ii. it must extend to times of peace as well as to those of war, | 278 | |
| iii. the danger from military establishments considered, | 279 | |
| iii. that of regulating and calling forth the militia, | 284 | |
| iv. that of levying and borrowing money, | 284 | |
| i. the authority to levy internal taxes considered, | 285 | |
| ii. the indefinite character of the authority considered, | 285 | |
| A. it has been sufficiently restricted, | 286 | |
| B. it was copied from the old system, | 287 | |
| C. an appeal to the objectors, | 287 | |
| b. concerning the "regulation of the intercourse with foreign nations," | XLI | 288 |
| i. the power to send and receive ambassadors and consuls and to make treaties, | 288 | |
| ii. to punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the laws of nations, | 289 | |
| iii. to regulate foreign commerce, | 290 | |
| i. reflections on the sanction of the slave-trade, | 290 | |
| ii. objection to the Constitution, based on that clause, considered, | 291 |
