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jan 18, 1788 - No. 40 On the Powers of the Convention to Form a Mixed Government Examined and Sustained.

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Author James Madison answers two questions: “whether the Convention were authorized to frame and propose this mixed Constitution,” and “how far considerations of duty…could have supplied any defect of regular authority.”

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jan 18, 1788
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~ 238 years ago

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