 | American literature - 1896 - 894 pages
...looked forward, also, to that range of new States which would soon be formed in the West. He thought the rule of representation ought to be so fixed, as...prevalence in the national councils." " The new States," said he, " will know less of the public interest than these ; will have an interest in many respects... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 1366 pages
...nevertheless prove that property was the main object of Society. * * * He thought the rule of represéntate to be so fixed as to secure to the Atlantic States a prevalence in the '. Councils. The new States will know less of the public interest than thi have an interest in many... | |
 | D. W. Meinig - History - 1986 - 532 pages
...became a topic of debate in the Constitutional Convention. Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania pushed hard "to secure to the Atlantic States a prevalence in the National Councils." Morris was one among many who saw the main object of government to be the protection of "property,"... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - History - 1990 - 548 pages
...He looked forward also to that range of New States which w* soon be formed in the West. He thought the rule of representation ought to be so fixed as...Atlantic States a prevalence in the National Councils. . . , Saturday, July 7. In Convention "Shall the clause allowing each State one vote in the 2"> branch,... | |
 | Frederick Turner, John Mack Faragher - History - 1999 - 280 pages
...looked forward, also, to that range of new States which would soon be formed in the West. He thought the rule of representation ought to be so fixed, as...prevalence in the national councils." "The new States," said he, "will know less of the public interest than these; will have an interest in many respects... | |
 | Peter Moore, Tyler - Poetry - 1999 - 638 pages
...haunts of men, not the remote wilderness, is the proper school of political talents." He believed that "the rule of representation ought to be so fixed as...Atlantic states a prevalence in the National Councils." Only when James Wilson of Pennsylvania stated, with common sense and cool logic, that discrimination... | |
 | Susan Harris Smith, Melanie Dawson - History - 2000 - 488 pages
...looked forward, also, to that range of new States which would soon be formed in the West. He thought the rule of representation ought to be so fixed, as...prevalence in the national councils." "The new States," said he, "will know less of the public interest than these; will have an interest in many respects... | |
 | Melissa Schwartzberg - Political Science - 2007 - 211 pages
...representatives which the Atlantic States should respectively have, and which each new State will have," so as to "secure to the Atlantic States a prevalence in the National Councils."40 In particular, Morris worried about the western states, as Madison noted: "He dwelt much... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1925 - 1038 pages
...the inhabitants of new states might be subject to foreign influence. Gouverneur Morris thought that the rule of representation ought to be so fixed as...prevalence in the national councils. " The new states," said he, " will know less of the public interest than these, will have an interest in many respects... | |
 | Oregon - 1926 - 722 pages
...constitutional convention most of these fears found expression. Gouverneur Morris, for instance, "thought the rule of representation ought to be so fixed, as...states a prevalence in the national councils," The westerners, he said, "would not be able to furnish men equally enlightened to share in the administration... | |
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He thought the rule of representation ought to be so fixed, as to secure to the Atlantic States a prevalence in the national councils. 
