Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.
The main chamber of the Constitutional Convention, consisting of all delegates.
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Third Report of Committee on Postponed Matters delivered and agreed. Second Report resumed. Money Bills and Presidential elections debated.
[Third Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters as Amended by the Convention]
To add to the clause “To declare war” the words “and grant letters of marque and reprisal”
To add to the clause “To raise and support armies” the words “but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years”