Only Jacob Read supported both this document and the nomination to Chief Justice of one of its most outspoken proponents, John Rutledge.
Only Jacob Read supported both this document and the nomination to Chief Justice of one of its most outspoken proponents, John Rutledge. It was supported under the pseudonym of Camillus by Alexander Hamilton, while Fisher Ames gave a speech in favor of it as a Congressman from Massachusetts. Granting free passage between the US and Canada to all those half Native American or more, it set the Saint Croix river as the northeastern boundary of the United States. Enraging the nascent Republican party, this is, for 10 points, which agreement between the United States and Great Britain, settling conflicts that had arisen after the Treaty of Paris, which takes its most common name from its major negotiator, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court?
Only Jacob Read supported both this document and the nomination to Chief Justice of one of its most outspoken proponents, John Rutledge.
Jay's Treaty [or Treaty of London of 1794]