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Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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y and Carroll. He was in Congress two years. It is a noteworthyfact that all but twelve of the fifty-five Framers of the Constitution had atsome period been in the Continental or Old Congress. New York, the Empire state, conscious of her prospective importance,jealously resisted the national scheme.f Of her three delegates RobertYates and John Lansing were notably in favor of preserving the individual *The Maryland Delegation were : Luther Martin, John Francis Mercer, Daniel Carroll, DanielJenifer of St. Thomas, James McHenry. I The New York delegates ; Robert Yates, John Lansing, Alexander Hamilton. THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION 341 powers of the State. Yates had been in public life many years; was inthe famous Committees of Safety, in the Provincial Congress of New York,and in the convention that framed the state constitution in 1777 ; had alsobeen a judge of the Supreme Court and chief justice of the state. Hewas fifty years of age, and distinguished for his moderation and impar-
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LUTHER MARTIN. tiality. John Lansing studied law in Chief Justice Yates office. He wasthirty-three, brilliant and versatile; was seven years in the state legisla-ture, four years mayor of Albany, and in the Old Congress from 1784 to1788. He was appointed chief justice of the state in 1798, and from 1801to 1814 was chancellor. Both Yates and Lansing vigorously opposed theConstitution, and when it was found impossible to patch up the Articlesof Confederation to meet the emergency, they took the ground that the 34? THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION Convention was transcending its powers in attempting to construct a newinstrument, and went home. Hamilton, undaunted at being thus left alone to represent so large andimportant a state, marshaled his marvelous gifts and forces into full play.By the action of the majority of her delegates New York had lost her votein the Convention, and little dreamed that the boldness, energy, acutesense, and well-balanced intellect of her youthful statesman, w

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