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Jensen, Merrill (ed.) / Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut
(1978)
Connecticut, pp. 650-669 ff.
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Connecticut ADAMS, JOHN (Mass.), 316; Defence of the Constitutions, 375-76, 385.4 474- 75 ADAMS, SAMUEL (Mass.), 465, 467n, 497n; opposes Constitution, 582, 603; and Antifederalist pamphlets sent into Connecticut, 596, 597n ALDEN, ROGER (Lebanon): as deputy secretary of Congress, 502n, 562n, 566n -letter to, 501-2 AMENDMENTS To ARTICLE OF CONFED- ERATION, 328, 373, 380., 477. See also Articles of Confederation; Confed- eration Congress AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION, 441; ar- gument that Constitution can be amended, 353, 358, 484, 502, 527, 558, 560n; amendment provisio,'n cri- ticized, 440-41; demand for, 494n; R. H. Lee proposes in Confederation Congress, 507n; assertion that de- mand for is insincere, 516. See also Bill of rights; Convention, second constitutional AMERICAN CITIZEN., AN (Tench Coxe), 372 ANARCHIAD, THE, 324-25, 476n ANARCHY, 453, 491; Antifederalists ac- cused of favoring, 468; rejection of Constitution will lead to, 466, 477, 515-16 ANNAPOLIS CONVENTION, 325 ANTIFEDERALISTS, 330, 364, 373, 487, 594; attacks upon, 330, 346, 350-51, 359, 387-88, 395-96, 401-2, 406, 455, 456, 458, 465, 467-68, 470-71, 473, 473-76, 497n, 505-6, 515-16, 517, 520-23, 534., 563-64, 576-77, 578-79, 580; publica- tion and circulation of out-of-state Antifederalist material in Connec- ticut, 330, 372-73, 456-57, 458, 470- 71,? 473, 495-96, 496-97,, 497n, 501, 507, 508-9, 514, 576, 578-79,. 596,9 597n; in Connecticut Convention, 336, 535, 547, 554, 576, 577, 579, 580, 584, 586; strength in Connecticut, 351, 394, 485, 501, 501-2, 506, 547, 577; referred to as "wrongheads," 406, 455, 465, 473-76, 501, 507, 577, 580; charges that newspapers discrim- mnated against, 457, 492-94, 564, 576- 77, 596; New York Antifederalists, 330, 458, 470-71.1 473, 495-96, 496n, 501, 503, 505, 507, 508, 508-9, 512,. 514, 517, 520-23, 576, 579, 594, 604, 605; charged with enmity toward George Washington, 466, 488, 506, 508,.512, 577; charge of disagreement among, 503-6; praise of Convention minority which supported Consti- tution after ratification, 563., 594, 595-96, 596, 598; praise of Conven- tion minority which opposed Consti- tution, 576, 580; Pennsylvania Anti- federalists, 594, 597. See also Amend- ments to Constitution ARISTOCRACY, 316, 320,.326,, 350; charges that Constitution creates danger of, 374, 426, 459; charge that Society of the Cincinnati will become, 379; de- nial 's that Constitution will create, 382-83, 491, 518-19, 524; denial that Society of the Cincinnati will be- come, 390-91 * See also Despotism ARMY: assertions that Congress' power to raise and maintain is dangerous, 378, 502; defense of Congress' power over, 388-89, 481-82, 525, 551-52, 570; debate over Congress' power over army and taxation, 547, 548-52, 578 -Officers: create and join Society of the Cincinnati, 319; support Consti- tution, 331, 354, 422 -Pensions: debate over commutation of officers' pensions, 319-22, 323, 331, 379, 422, 429n, 582 See also Cincinnati, Society of the; Militia, state ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, 319, 328, 353n, 378, 379, 423, 429n, 525; charges that commutation of officers' pen- sions violates, 320, 331; argument that they are adequate, 326, 422; argument that they are deficient, 326-27, 348, 389., 395, 477, 524, 525, 527-28, 541, 554, 557, 559; argument that a central (national) government is needed, 326-27, 356-57, 400-1, 466, 541-42, 546; argument that Consti- tutional Convention violated Arti- 650
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