The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCLXIII

by Max Farrand

ⅭⅭⅬⅩⅢ. Jonathan Dayton in the House of Representatives.^[1]

December 22, 1791.

Mr. Dayton also objected to the motion; he thought fourteen days would be a more proper time; it was the design of the Constitution, though it is not expressed, that the President should not know the characters to whom he is indebted for his election.

1. Annals of Congress, Second Congress, 279.