Excerpt from Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Convention: Assembled at Philadelphia, in the Year 1787, for the Purpose of Forming the Constitution of the United States of America; From Notes Taken by the Late Robert Yates, Esquire, Chief Justice of New York, and Copied by John Lansing, Jun; Esquire, Late Chancel It is to be regretted, that Mr. Yates left the convention before the draft of the Constitution was completed but he left it after all the basis urged by the promoters of the favored plan had been adopted by a majority of the representatives of the States; and what he did not hear, has not escaped the vigilance of Mr. Luther Martin, whose report is inserted before the notes of Mr. Yates, because it embraces a more general View of the subject, and may serve as a key to discriminate the several interlocutors mentioned in the Debates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.