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28-9. RULES,.

Mr. EDMUND RANDOLPH'S FIFTEEN PROPOSITIONS,
Mr. CHARLES PINCKNEY'S DRAFT OF A FEDERAL CONSTITUTION,

30. Mr. Randolph's Propositions considered in Committee,.....

31. Right of Suffrage further considered; Legislative Rights,......

June 1. Executive Powers; Duties,

2. Term of Service, Choice, Salary, limited Period, Ineligibility, Impeach-

ment,.

4. Negative or Veto,.

5. National Judiciary; New States,

6. Inferior Tribunals; Negative on State Laws,

7. Elections by Districts,...

8. Representative Classes,....

9, 11. Executive Suffrage,

Suffrage; Ratio; Vote,.

139

...141, 143

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Republican Constitution; Amendments,.

12. Term of Service; Salary,.....

13. Jurisdiction of the Supreme Tribunal,

Money Bills,..

14, 15. Mr. PATTERSON'S ELEVEN PROPOSITIONS,

16, 18. Mr. P.'s Propositions considered; Revisal of Confederation,.

Col. HAMILTON'S PLAN OF GOVERNMENT, in Eleven Propositions,...... 179

19. Mr. Patterson's Propositions postponed,

180

Mr. RANDOLPH'S NINETEEN RESOLUTIONS submitted, as altered, amend-

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25. Second Branch chosen by the Legislatures; Service; Age, 30 Years,. 187

26. Biennial Term; Pay; Eligibility,

189

Office holding; Ineligibility; Originating Acts,.

190

27. Right of Suffrage in the First Branch, according to the Confederation,. 191

28. Right of Suffrage in First or Second Branch,

191

29. Right of Suffrage; equal Vote in the Senate,

191

30. New Hampshire Delegates requested to attend; equal Vote,.

... 192

July 2. Equal Vote in the Second Branch; Suffrage,

193

5. Report on Ratio of Representation; Money Bills to originate in the

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Money Bills not to be altered in the Second Branch; Appropriations;
7. Use of the Philadelphia Library offered to the Convention; Equal Vote, 196
9. Apportionment of Representatives, (56.)

195

196

Census for the Population and Wealth,

197

10. Apportionment for, (65.)...

197

Propositions to alter the Number of Representatives in New Hampshire,

North and South Carolina, and Georgia,

198

11. Census; the "Three fifths of the Inhabitants of other Descriptions," &c. 199
12. Taxation according to Representation and the "Three fifths;" Census, 201
13. Assessment on Inhabitants; Census,.

203

Division of States hereafter,

204

14. Representatives hereafter not to exceed the Number of the original
Thirteen States; Second Branch; Proposal to have thirty-six Mem

bers,

204

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16. Sixty-five Representatives proposed; Money Bills,.......
VOL. I.

205

1787.

Page.

July 17. Rights of the States to be protected; Negative on Laws,.......

206

Acts and Treaties the supreme Law,

207

Electors, their Appointment by the Legislature; Term,.......

208

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20. Supreme Executive; Elections; Qualifications; Removable; Im-

1 peachment,

212

21. Pay; Negative on Acts; Nomination and Appointment of Judges,...

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25. Supreme Executive, six Years in any twelve; Copies of Proceedings to

be furnished each Member,...

218

✔ 26. National Executive; Seven Years proposed; to be ineligible a second

Time; Qualification of landed Property,.

219

Pensioners disqualified, or Defaulters; Seat of Government not to be at
the Seat of a State Government,

220

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL ON THE TWENTY-THREE RES-

OLUTIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF REPORTING A CONSTITUTION,...... 221

Aug. 6. Report delivered, and Copies furnished, ..

September 12.)...

6. DRAFT OF A CONSTITUTION BY THE COMMITTEE OF FIVE, (debated till
7. Preamble, &c., considered in detail; Negative; Time of Meeting,..... 230
8 Residence; Taxation; Representation,.

223

224

232

9. Vacancies; Resignations to be supplied by the Legislature; Qualifica-

tions,

234

10. Quorum; Attendance; Concurrence; Dissent,

236

11. Each House to keep a Journal and publish; Adjournment, not more

than three Days,......

238

13. Citizenship Limitation; Money Bills,

240

14. Office prohibited; Pay, per Diem, $5; Mileage, same,

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18. Additional Powers to be vested, defined; Debts to be assumed,.

247

20. Propositions; Privileges, &c., referred to a Committee of Five; Council
of State to assist the President; Organization of the Departments, &c.;
Treason defined,.

249

21. Livingston's Report on "the Debts;" Requisitions,.

253

22. Rutledge's Report on sundry Amendments,

256

23. Report of Committee of Eleven; Militia; Offices; Treaties, ..

258

24. Slaves, limiting their Importation; Choice of President,

261

25. Debts; Slaves; Laws; Duties; Ports; Taxes,

264

27. Reprieves; Removal; Oath; Slavery; Controversies; Judiciary,..... 267
28. Commerce; Crimes; Bills; ex post facto Laws; Misdemeanors,. 270

29. Bankruptcies; Fugitive Slaves; New States,

272

30. New States; Western Claims; needful Rules and Regulations; Re-

ligious Test,

274

31. Representation; Constitution to be submitted to State Conventions;

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12. PLAN OF THE CONSTITUTION, by the Committee of Revision of Five
Members, appointed on the 8th of September to revise the Style,

&c.,

297 to 305

12. Letter to Congress on submitting the Constitution,
13. Johnson's Resolutions for Ratification, and putting the Constitution into

305

Operation,

306

Madison's Minutes, completing the Journal; Votes, &c........... 307

17. Constitution engrossed and signed; Representative Clause reconsid-
ered; Journal subject to the Order of Congress,......

317

SUPPLEMENT. - Reception of the Report of the Convention by Congress, ... 318

RATIFICATIONS, showing the Order in which the Thirteen States of the old

Page.

Confederation adopted the Federal Constitution,.

319

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14. Vermont,......... Oct. 27, 1790,

1789. March 4. AMENDMENTS proposed at the First Congress, Returns of the Decisions of the States thereon,.. AMENDMENTS - Third Congress, Second Session,....

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Fourth Congress, First Session,
Fifth Congress, Second Session,
Eighth Congress, First Session,

340

341

341

LUTHER MARTIN'S LETTER, disclosing the Proceedings of the Federal Convention, addressed to the Legislature of Maryland,...344 to 389

ROBERT YATES'S MINUTES of the Secret Debates of the Federal Con

vention, from May 25 to June 5,.......

.....389 to 479

YATES AND LANSING'S LETTER to the Governor of New York, furnishing their

Reasons for not subscribing to the Constitution,

480

EDMUND RANDOLPH'S LETTER to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, Virginia, containing his Reasons for not subscribing to the Federal Constitution,

482 to 491

491

492

SHERMAN AND ELLSWORTH to the Governor of Connecticut,.
ELBRIDGE GERRY'S Reasons for not signing the Federal Constitution,
GEORGE MASON's Objections to the Federal Constitution, (a Virginia Delegate.) 494
JOHN JAY'S ADDRESS on the proposed Federal Constitution to the People of

New York,...

496

503

RICHARD HENRY LEE'S LETTER to the Governor of Virginia,
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS to General Washington, and also to Timothy Pickering, g,. 505
JAMES MADISON to Mr. Sparks, on G. Morris's Course in the Federal Convention, 507

DIGEST OF THE CONSTITUTION.

Art. Sec. Pa.

Acts, records, and judicial proceedings of each state, entitled to faith and

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Attainder of treason shall not work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except

during the life of the person attainted,

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Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives,
Before they become laws, shall be passed by both houses, and approved

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by the President; or, if disapproved, shall be passed by two thirds of
each house,..

175

Bill's not returned in ten days, unless an adjournment intervene, shall be con

sidered as approved,

175

Capitation Tax. - (See Tax.)

197

Census, or enumeration, to be made every ten years,.
Claims of the United States, or of the several states, not to be prejudiced by

12 2

any construction of the Constitution,....

4 3 14

Citizens of each state shall be entitled to the privileges and immunities of cit

izens in the several states,

4 2 13

Commerce, regulations respecting, to be equal and uniform,
Congress, vested with legislative power,

19 7

11 1

May alter the regulations of state legislatures concerning elections of
senators and representatives, except as to place of choosing senators, 1 4
Shall assemble once every year,
May provide for cases of removal of President and Vice-President, .... 2 1
May determine the time of choosing electors of President and Vice-
President,

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May invest the appointment of inferior officers in the President alone,

in the courts of law, or the heads of departments, May from time to time establish courts inferior to the Supreme Court,. 31 12 May (with one limitation) declare the punishment of treason,.

May prescribe the manner of proving the acts, records, and judicial pro

ceedings of each state,

The assent of required to the formation of a new state within the jurisdiction of any other, or by the junction of two or more,

May propose amendments to the Constitution, or, on application, call a
convention,

The assent of required to the admission of new states into the Union,...
To lay and collect duties on imposts and excises,..

To borrow money,

To regulate commerce,

To establish uniform laws of bankruptcy and naturalization,.
To coin money, regulate the value of coin, and fix the standard of

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To establish post-offices and post-roads,

To authorize patents to authors and inventors,.

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court,

To define and punish piracies, felonies on the high seas, and offences

against the laws of nations,...

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To declare war, grant letters of marque, and make rules concerning

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To make rules for the government of the army and navy,

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To pass laws necessary to carry the enumerated powers into effect,

18 7

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To dispose of, and make rules concerning, the territory or other property

of the United States,

43 14

Constitution, formed by the people of the United States, Preamble,

1

How amended,....

5 1 14

And the laws under it, and treaties, declared to be the supreme law,... 6 1 15 Rendered operative by the ratification of the Conventions of nine states, 7 1 15

Conventions for proposing amendments to Constitution,

Court, Supreme, its original and appellate jurisdiction,

Courts, inferior to the Supreme Court, may be ordained by Congress, .....
Crimes, persons accused of, fleeing from justice, may be demanded,

Debts against the Confederation to be valid against the United States under

this Constitution,... Duties on exports prohibited.....

On imports and exports, imposed by states, shall enure to the treasury of the United States,....

5 1 14

3 2 12

31 12

4 2 13

6 1 15 197

1 10 8

Elections, of senators and representatives, shall be prescribed by the state
legislatures, as to time, place, and manner,
Qualifications and returns of members of Congress to be determined by
each house,..

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Electors of President and Vice-President, how chosen, and their duties,.... 2 1 9

and 12th amendment,

Shall vote the same day, throughout the United States,...
No senator or representative, holding office under the United States,
shall serve as

Enumeration. (See Census.)

Executive Power shall be vested in a President,....

(See President.)

Exports. (See Tax.)

And imports, duties on by states to be payable into the treasury of the
United States,...

Ez post facto Law, none shall be passed,.

Habeas Corpus, writ of, can only be suspended in cases of rebellion or in

vasion,

House of Representatives. (See Representatives.)
House. (See Senate.)

Impeachment, all civil officers liable to.....

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Persons found guilty by, liable to indictment and punishment for the offence,..

Importation of Slaves, until prohibited, a duty authorized on, after 1808,

Judges shall hold their offices during good behavior,

...

The compensations of, shall not be diminished during continuance in office,......

Judicial power, vested in a Supreme Court and courts inferior,

The cases to which it extends,

...

Judicial proceedings, records, and acts of each state, are entitled to faith and

credit in every other state,..

Jury trial shall be held in the state where the crime shall have been committed.....

If the crime have not been committed within a state, the trial shall be held at the place Congress shall have directed,.

Jury, trial by, secured, in prosecutions for all crimes, except in cases of impeachment,

And in suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars. 7th amendment,

to be,

Law, supreme, the Constitution, the laws under it, and treaties declared
Legislative powers vested in Congress. (See Congress.)...

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Money shall be drawn from the treasury only by laws appropriating, ....... 198
Nobility, titles of, shall not be granted by the United States,.............. 19 8
Officers of the Senate, except their president, shall be chosen by the Senate, 1 3 3
Civil, may be removed by impeachment,.....
2 4 11
Orders of one house, requiring the concurrence of the other. (See Res-

olution,).

Persons held to labor or service, their importation or migration into the
United States may be prohibited after 1808,
Escaping from one state into another, shall be delivered up to those en-
titled to service,...

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Powers not delegated are reserved to the people, or, when not prohibited,

to the states, 10th amendment,

20

Executive. (See President.).

Legislative. (See Congress,)

11 1

21 8

Judicial. (See Judicial.).

31 12

Presents, emoluments, office, or title from, a foreign king, prince, or state, to persons holding offices of profit or trust, prohibited, ..

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