The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . lledto admit any states except on such terms as it desired, and Morrishoned that this would secure permanent subordination of the last part of the clause was :ohrased by Morris with an ideaof protecting the large states in their claims to western brought on the old conflict between the landed and the landlessstates since the landless states were unwilling to guarantee theterritorial claims of any other state. Morris pointed o-;t that ifthe claure was rejected with h forced division of the landed statesas an object of t
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . lledto admit any states except on such terms as it desired, and Morrishoned that this would secure permanent subordination of the last part of the clause was :ohrased by Morris with an ideaof protecting the large states in their claims to western brought on the old conflict between the landed and the landlessstates since the landless states were unwilling to guarantee theterritorial claims of any other state. Morris pointed o-;t that ifthe claure was rejected with h forced division of the landed statesas an object of the new system ^that the gentlemen from thesewould pretty quickly leave us (2). The clause as Morris framedit was adopted the next day (3). Still following Morris, the convention took up theclause bearing on the regulation of territories . The landed statesv/anted further guarantee of their territoT^ial claims,,while thelandless states desired the claims guaranteed to the -nited ^tates. (1) J^arrand, II, 455. (2) Ibid, II, 4r^6. (3) Ibid, II, ?^ilson and laadison tnought it best to leave the whole question instatu quo, and thus escnpe the need of coining to any decisioneither one vmy or the other. In order to satisfy both sides, Mor-ris offered the in the following rords: Ihe legislatureshall have the i^ower to dispose of and make all needful rules andregrilations resneoting territory or ether property belonging tothe United States: and nothing in this Constitution cmtainedshall be so construed as to prejudice any olaims, either of theUnited States or of any particular state (I). In that form theclause was ado-oted. When the question of suffrage qualification?: aroseMorris took the aristocratic side in that he urged freehold suf-frage. Hason introduced a clause on July 26 which provided thatmembers rf the legislature must have landed property and must nothave unsettled accounts wltn the United States (2). TJorris saidthat he mucn >--referred .ualificotions in th
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