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1. Resolved, that the Articles of Confederation ought to be so revised,
corrected, and enlarged as to render the federal Constitution adequate to
the exigencies of Government, and the preservation of the Union.
2. Resolved, that in addition to the Powers vested in the United States
in Congress by the present existing Articles of Confederation, they be authorized to pass Acts for raising a Revenue by levying a duty or duties
on all goods or merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture, imported
into any part of the United States,—by Stamps on Paper vellum or parchment,—and by a postage on all letters or packages passing through the
general Post Office, to be applied to such federal purposes as they shall
deem proper and expedient; to make rules and regulations for the collection thereof, and the same from time to time, to alter and amend in such
manner as they shall think proper: to pass Acts for the regulation of trade
and commerce, as well with foreign Nations, as with each other; provided that all punishments, fines, forfeitures and penalties to be incurred
for contravening such acts, rules, and regulations shall be adjudged by
the common Law Judiciarys of the State in which any offence contrary to
the true intent and meaning of such acts and regulations shall have been
committed or perpetrated; with liberty of commencing in the first instance all suits and prosecutions for that purpose in the superior Common Law Judiciary of such State, subject nevertheless, for the correction
of all errors, both in law and fact, in rendering judgment, to an appeal to
the Judiciary of the United States.
3. Resolved, that whenever requisitions shall be necessary, instead of
the rule for making requisition mentioned in the Articles of Confederation, the United States in Congress be authorized to make such requisitions in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens
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