Marylands Influence in Founding a National Commonwealth Or the History of the
Marylands Influence in Founding a National Commonwealth Or the History of the
Herbert Baxter Adams
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45 Congress] will bring her into the Confederation. " 1 Connecticut 2 soon offered a cession of western lands, provided that she might retain the juris- diction. It is a remarkable fact that, at this period, Alexander Hamilton should have favored such a reservation by states ceding lands to the Confederation. In his proposals for constitutional reform, in a letter to James Duane, of New York, dated September 3, 1780, he says that Congress should be invested wdth the whole or a portion of the we...stern lands as a basis of future revenue, " reserving the jurisdiction to the States by whom they are granted. 3 " But the original idea of Maryland that the western country should " be parcelled out by Con- gress into free, convenient, and independent gov- ernments, " was destined to prevail. On the tenth 1 Madison Papers, p. 50. 2 This offer was made October 10, 1780. The terms of the legislative act show conclusively that the Maryland Instructions were exercising their influence upon the country.
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