Robert R. Livingston

Gilbert Livingston owned some tenanted land and did work as a lawyer for his uncle, the lord of Livingston manor, who was, as Dangerfield notes, involved in a nasty fight with Robert R. Livingston.

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Chancellor Robert R. Livingston was a leading Federalist speaker at the New York ratifying convention.

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It passed, 32–22, with Hamilton, Jay, and Robert R. Livingston in the majority.

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Oothoudt to John McKesson, April 3, and Schuyler to Robert R. Livingston, Albany, March 29, 1788, DHRC XXI: 1375–77; also 1477–78, and n.1 at 1478, 1573.

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That was why, as Robert R. Livingston noted, the issue had taken up a disproportionate amount of time in earlier ratifying conventions.61 The debates on federal taxing powers in the New York convention necessarily restated arguments that had been said before but, given the strength of the opposition, explored the topic with particular thoroughness and some new twists.

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Gilbert was, as Young put it, “no more than a poor relation” to Robert R. Livingston.

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George Dangerfield, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746–1813 New York, 1960, 214–20, describes the split in the Livingston family—over a mill and land rights—that complicated the election of convention delegates in Columbia County.

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Archibald Maclaine, a crotchety, fifty-nine-year-old lawyer, planter, and Scots-Irish immigrant who represented the town of Wilmington, also spoke frequently and intelligently at the North Carolina ratifying convention, but often, like Robert R. Livingston in New York, “impolitically.”

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Denials that such a thing as aristocracy existed by the likes of Robert R. Livingston could not fool them.

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Like John Jay and Robert R. Livingston, Dane noted the obvious point that only representatives of those states that had already ratified would be in the first Congress, where laws critical for the character of the new government would be adopted and “essential amendments” recommended.

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