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Jensen, Merrill (ed.) / Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut
(1978)
Georgia, pp. 642-649
Page 642
Georgia AMENDMENTS To ARTICLES OF CONFED- ERATION., 231; proposed by Georgia, 208; ratified by Georgia, 209; argu- ment that amendments would have solved problems of Union, 237 AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION, 285; As- sembly authorizes state Convention to propose, 221-22, 228, 263; demand for, 230, 232n, 237-43., 254; and pro- posal for seco nd constitutional con- vention, 237; assertion that another constitutional convention will fail, 260; argument that Southern States will be unable to secure amendments unless they ratify for a limited time, 260; and eleventh amendment, 286- 87 -Amendments proposed: to change method of voting in House of Repre- sentatives, 238; to prohibit Congress from regulating federal elections, 238-39; to have states pay fixed sala- ries to members of Congress, 239; to prohibit Congress from levying direct taxes and excises in peacetime, 239- 40; to prohibit establishment of fed- eral inferior courts, 240; to prohibit peacetim-e standing army and to limit military appropriations to one year, 240; to limit U.S. capital to area of five miles square, 240; to grant Con- gress power to prohibit smuggling, 240; to prohibit any suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, 240; to limit term of President, 240; to in- crease number of Presidential Elec- tors, set day for election of Electors and President, and fix President's salary, 240-41; that President be comnmander in chief only with ad- vice of both houses of Congress, 241; to limit President's appointive pow- ers, 241; to restrict and define the p~ower of the federal judiciary, 241- 42; to guarantee jury trials and free- dom of the press, 242-43, ANNAPOLIS CONVENTION: Georgia As- semibly rejects call of for a constitu- tional convention, 209 ANTIFEDERALISTS, 252; publication and circulation of out-of-state Antifed- eralist material in Georgia, 229, 230, 260; assertion that Constitution has enemies in Georgia, 232; Georgians warned to beware of, 234-36 APPOINTMENTS, 241 ARISTOCRACY: charge that Constitution creates, danger of, 231, 236, 237. See also Civil liberties ARMSTRtONG, JAMES (Camden): id., 284n; 217, 282 ARMY: proposed amendment to Con- stitution to prohibi 't standing army in peacetime and to limit military appropriations to one year, 240; charge that Congress under Consti- tution will create a standing army, 243; defense of principle of stand- ing army, 246 ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, 209; rati- fied by Georgia, 208; argument that Constitutional Convention was em - powered only to amend, 231, 237; argument that they need to be amended, 231; argument that Arti- cles are destroyed by Constitution, 293.7 ASSEMBLY: See Georgia Assembly AUGUSTA: treaty with Creeks signed at, ,205-6, 289; as new state capital, 208; Constitution received at, 219, 220; congressional resolution of 28 Sep- tember printed in, 220 BALANCED GOVERNMENT: Constitution will create, 245 BALDWIN, ABRAHAM (Wilkes): id., 207- 8, 308; 210, 217, 268n; delegate to Constitutional Convention, 209-10; sends Constitution to Governor, 219, 2290; letter from laid before Coun- cil, 220, 223 -letter from, 262-63 -letter to, 297-98 BIBLICAL REFERENCES: Apostles, 258; Babel, 235; David, 251; Nathan, 251; Sodom and Gomnorrah, 252. See also Classical anltiquity, references to BILL OF RIGHTS, 285. See also Amend- nments to Constitution BRIGGS., ISAAC (Richmond?): Conven- tion secretary, 269, 271, 276, 277, 279, 280 -letter from., 208 642
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