1. Morris, Lewis R., Letter of G. Morris to III, 404

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Morris, Gouverneur, delegate from Pennsylvania, attendance at Convention of, III, 589; character sketch of, III, 92, 236, 498; elected on committees, I, 538, (542), 558, (562), II, 473, (481), 547, (553, 554); presents letter from Rhode Island, I, 9, (13); opposes voting in Convention by states, I, II; opposes committee to superintend minutes, I, 17; moves to postpone first Randolph Resolution, I, (30), 33, (38); explains distinction between "federal" and "national, supreme" government, I, 34, (43); favors proportional representation and opposes some features of compromise, I, 31, (36), 37, 148, (151), 511, (517), 529, 533, (536, 537), 540, 551, (554, 556), 557, (559), 560, 561, 567, 571, 581, 583, 588, 591, 592, 593, 601, 603, II, 25, 94, 106; favors non- payment of senators, I, 513, (518); opposes ineligibility of members of congress to office, I, 513, (518), II, 286, 289, 490; opposes restriction of money bills, I, 543, 545, II, 224, 234, 276, 297, 509; favors property qualification and other limitations in election

| Page imageof members of congress, I, 545, II, 69, 121, 122, 124, 126, 201, 202, (206, 207, 209), 216, 217, (225), 235, 237, 239, 241, (242, 243), 250, 270, 271; opposes distinguishing between powers of general legislature and those of the states, II, 26; opposes requisitions, II, 26; favors additional powers in congress, II, (26), 306, 307, 315, 317, 345, 360, 450, 489, 529, 626, 627; opposes negative on state laws, II, 27, 28, 391; favors choice of executive by people and the new plan of election, II, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 52, 59, 69, 103, 106, 112, 113, 120, 403, (407), 427, 500, 501, 502, 512, 522, 523, 527, (530), 535, 537; favors appointment of officers by executive with consent of senate, II, 41, 44, 82, 389, 539; opposes, but later favors impeachment with trial by senate, II, 42, 64, 65, 68, 103, 427, 550, 551, 552; favors possibility of increasing salaries of judges, II, 44, 45, 429, 430; favors inferior courts, II, 46; opposes provision for completion of engagements of congress, II, 46; opposes guarantee to states, II, 47; favors absolute veto and association of judges, II, 75, 78, 200, 299, 585, 586; favors ratification of Constitution by people, II, 92, 93, 468, 475, 478, 479; think, Philadelphia and New York have expectations of becoming seat of government, II, 127; favors ratification of treaties by law, II 197, 392, 540, 548; moves to substitute May for December as time of meeting of Congress, II, 198, 199, (206); protests against slavery, II, 221, 374, 415, 417; favors fixing number for quorum, II, 252; favors permitting a majority of each house to expel a member, II, 254; opposes permitting any senator to enter his dissent, II, 255; favors individual calling for the yeas and nays, II, 255; comments on distrust of general government, II, 261; opposes alteration in powers regarding adjournment of congress, II, 261; favors payment of members of congress out of national treasury, II, 290; opposes power of congress to emit bills of credit, II, 308, 309; proposes council of state, II, 342, 542; opposes sumptuary laws, II, 344, (351); criticizes definition of treason, II, 345, 346, 347, 349; favors adjustment of state accounts with United States, II, 357; thinks prohibition of ex post facto laws unnecessary, but prohibition of bills of attainder essential, II, 376, (378); opposes referring appointments to states, II, 406; favors obligation of new government to discharge debts, II, 414; opposes power of president to correspond with executives of states, II, 419; opposes subjecting judges to arbitrary removal, II, 428; favors provision on suspension of writ of habeas corpus, II, 438; opposes prohibition on states in private contracts, II, 439; opposes prohibition on states with regard to embargoes, II, 441; favors state import duties coming into the national treasury, II, 442; favors proposal of interstate recognition being committed, II, 448; favors indefinite clause for admission of new states, II, 454, 455; favors prohibition of religious test, II, 468; favors easy amendment of constitution, II, 468, 629; favors each house being judge of its own privileges, II, 502; favors consent of the legislature to places purchased, II, 510; opposes two-thirds of senate being a quorum, II, 549; favors inspection laws of states, II, 589, 625; opposes appointment of treasurer by congress, II, 614; opposes annual publication of public expenditures, II, 618; moves that no state be deprived of equal suffrage in senate, II, 631; favors modification in, and explains wording of various clauses, II, 196, 232, 235, 316, 377, 389, 405, 417, 430, 431, 463, 466, 480, 488, 607, 608, 614, 617; prepares form of signing Constitution, II, 643; signs Constitution, II, 645, 664; anecdote of Washington and, III, 85; work of, on committee of style, III, 170; in an oration upon Washington, describes his influence in Convention, III, 381; in the Senate: refers to dissensions in Convention, III, 390, 391; writes to New York senate on election of president, III, 393; writes to Livingston on acquisition of new territory, III, 401, 404; writes to Lewis Moris on compromises in representation and election of president, III, 404; writes to Walsh on difficulties in Convention, III, 418; writes to Pickering on taking of notes in Convention by different members, III, 419; writes to Moss Kent on amendments, III, 420; writes to Wells explaining why he supported the Constitution, III, 421.

Morris, Lewis R., letter of G. Morris to III, 404.