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mainder of their instructions being in the same words as those given to the Georgia delegates. The instructions given to the deputies of Delaware were substantially in accord with the others—being almost literally identical with those of Pennsylvania—but the following proviso was added: So, always, and provided, that such alterations or further provisions, or any of them, do not extend to that part of the fifth article of the Confederation of the said States, finally ratified on the first day of March, in the year 1781, which declares that, in determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote. Rhode Island, as has already been mentioned, sent no delegates. From an examination and comparison of the enactments and instructions above quoted, we may derive certain conclusions, so obvious that they need only to be stated: 1. In the first place, it is clear that the delegates to the convention of 1787 represented, not the people of
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix K (search)
dard of Weights and Measures;To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the Confederate States: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;To establish post-offices and post routes; but the expenses of the Post-Office Department, after the first day of March, in the year of our Lord, To promote the progress of science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be paid out of its own revenue: To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supr