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Extracts from Gilbert Livingston’s Notes of Debates, 25 July 1788

Extracts from Gilbert Livingston’s Notes of Debates

[[Poughkeepsie,] Fryday July 25th 1788]

proposition of Yesterday read1

Jay rises—not to debate— yesterday gave the fullest Assurances that they meant to go hand in hand with us—& produces draft [of] a letter intended to be sent to the several states—…

Jay— not very anctious—is willing to have it expressed as strongly as possible—

even expressly reserving all the rights not granted in the constitution—

AD, N: Gilbert Livingston (EJ: 13430); 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: 2300, 2303.

1. Lansing’s proposition to withdraw from the Union if a second convention is not summoned.

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    “Extracts from Gilbert Livingston’s Notes of Debates, 25 July 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-05-02-0039. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 5, 1788–1794, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, p. 56.]