DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,.. NOTES ON POLITICAL RIGHTS AND SOVEREIGNTY,.. 1782. REPLY TO RHODE ISLAND OBJECTIONS TOUCHING IMPORT DUTIES. Dec. 16, 100 1784. POWERS OF CONGRESS TO REGULATE COMMERCE. April 30,.. 1786. REPORT OF THE STATES ON THE REGULATION OF COMMERCE. Mar. 3, 108 1786. PROPOSITION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA. Jan. 21,. (ANNAPOLIS CONVENTION.) PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMISSIONERS TO List of the Members who signed, (39.) Who never attended, (10.) Those who attended, but did not sign the Constitution, (16.) Total, 65,............ 124 31. Right of Suffrage further considered; Legislative Rights,.. June 1. Executive Powers; Duties, . 4. Negative or Veto,.. 6. Inferior Tribunals; Negative on State Laws, Connecticut, May 2d, Thursday,. 127 Pennsylvania, March 23, 1787. May 14. JOURNAL OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION: — 23-9. RULES,... ...... Mr. EDMUND RANDOLPH'S FIFTEEN PROPOSITIONS, Mr. CHARLES PINCKNEY'S DRAFT OF A FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, 30. Mr. Randolph's Propositions considered in Committee,.. 2. Term of Service, Choice, Salary, limited Period, Ineligibility, Impeachment,.. 5. National Judiciary; New States, 7. Elections by Districts,. 8. Representative Classes,. 9, 11. Executive Suffrage, Suffrage; Ratio; Vote,... Republican Constitution; Amendments, 12. Term of Service; Salary,... 13. Jurisdiction of the Supreme Tribunal, Money Bills, 14, 15. Mr. PATTERSON'S ELEVEN PROPOSITIONS, Virginia, May 2,.. 132 North Carolina, April 3,.. 133 South Carolina, April 10,. 136 Georgia, April 17, .... 137 ... 139 .141, 143 141 145 150 151 154 156 158 160 163 165 166 167 168 169 171 174 174 175 16, 18. Mr. P.'s Propositions considered; Revisal of Confederation,. Col. HAMILTON'S PLAN OF GOVERNMENT, in Eleven Propositions,. Mr. RANDOLPH'S NINETEEN RESOLUTIONS Submitted, as altered, amended, and agreed to, 181 183 184 185 23. Congressional Compensation, 25. Second Branch chosen by the Legislatures; Service; Age, 30 Years,. 187 26. Biennial Term; Pay; Eligibility, 189 .. 186 Office holding; Ineligibility; Originating Acts, ........ 190 27. Right of Suffrage in the First Branch, according to the Confederation,. 191 191 191 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 First Branch, 193 Note. Census and Quotas in 1785, 194 6. Reference and Votes,. 195 Money Bills not to be altered in the Second Branch; Appropriations; 195 7. Use of the Philadelphia Library offered to the Convention; Equal Vote, 196 Propositions to alter the Number of Representatives in New Hampshire, 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 1787. Page. July 17. Rights of the States to be protected; Negative on Laws,. 20. Supreme Executive; Elections; Qualifications; Removable; Impeachment, 210 211 212 21. Pay; Negative on Acts; Nomination and Appointment of Judges, 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- 221 Aug. 6. Report delivered, and Copies furnished, 223 6. DRAFT OF A CONSTITUTION BY THE COMMITTEE OF FIVE, (debated till September 12.). 224 7. Preamble, &c., considered in detail; Negative; Time of Meeting,.. 230 232 9. Vacancies; Resignations to be supplied by the Legislature; Qualifications, 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, 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 ... 261 25. Debts; Slaves; Laws; Duties; Ports; Taxes, 264 27. Reprieves; Removal; Oath; Slavery; Controversies; Judiciary,. 267 270 272 30. New States; Western Claims; needful Rules and Regulations; Religious Test, 274 31. Representation; Constitution to be submitted to State Conventions; Presidency, 277 4. Partial Report of the Committee of Eleven, Sept. 3. Records; Bankruptcies; Office, 5 to 10. Brearly's Report further considered, 12. PLAN OF THE CONSTITUTION, by the Committee of Revision of Five Members, appointed on the 8th of September to revise the Style, &c., 12. Letter to Congress on submitting the Constitution, 13. Johnson's Resolutions for Ratification, and putting the Constitution into Operation,. Madison's Minutes, completing the Journal; Votes, &c.,... 17. Constitution engrossed and signed; Representative Clause reconsidered; Journal subject to the Order of Congress,. SUPPLEMENT. - Reception of the Report of the Convention by Congress, 318 RATIFICATIONS, showing the Order in which the Thirteen States of the old Confederation adopted the Federal Constitution,. .... Page. 319 338 339 340 340 341 ... 341 10. Virginia, 11. New York, 12. North Carolina, 13. Rhode Island, 14. Vermont,........ 1789. March 4. AMENDMENTS proposed at the First Congress, Returns of the Decisions of the States thereon,. AMENDMENTS Third Congress, Second Session,. 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 Convention, 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, EDMUND RANDOLPH'S LETTER to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, Virginia, containing his Reasons for not subscribing to the Federal Constitution, 480 482 to 491 491 492 SHERMAN AND ELLSWORTH to the Governor of Connecticut,. ...... RICHARD HENRY LEE'S LETTER to the Governor of Virginia, 496 503 GOUVERNEUR MORRIS to General Washington, and also to Timothy Pickering,. 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 Attainder of treason shall not work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted, 33 13 Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, |