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8803. VETO, Qualified.—

I approved,
from the first moment, of the great mass of
what is in the new Constitution; * * * the qualified negative on laws given to the
Executive, which, however, I should have
liked better if associated with the judiciary
also, as in New York.—
To F. Hopkinson. Washington ed. ii, 586. Ford ed., v, 76.
(P. March. 1789)