oath to support the national government — Postponed.
Mr. Randolph's fifteenth proposition — The Constitution to be ratified by conventions of the people of the states recommended by the state legislatures — Postponed.
Motion to strike out "inferior tribunals" in the ninth proposition — Agreed to.
Motion to amend the ninth proposition, so as to empower the national legislature to institute inferior tribunals — Agreed to.
Wednesday, June 6, |
160 |
Motion to amend fourth proposition so as to provide that the first branch of the national legislature be elected by the state legislatures — Disagreed to.
Motion to reconsider the vote on the eighth proposition, so as to unite a convenient number of the national judiciary with the national executive in the revision of the acts of the national legislature — Disagreed to.
Thursday, June 7, |
166 |
Motions to supply the blank occasioned by the disagreement to Mr. Randolph's fifth proposition relative to the mode of choosing the second branch of the national legislature — To be elected by the people divided into large districts — Disagreed to — To be appointed by the national executive out of nominations by the state legislatures — Disagreed to — To be chosen by the state legislatures — Agreed to.
Friday, June 8, |
170 |
Motion, on a reconsideration of that part of the sixth proposition which gives the national legislature power to negative state laws contravening the articles of union, or foreign treaties, to extend the power so as to authorize the national legislature to negative all laws which they should judge to be improper — Disagreed to.
Saturday, June 9, |
174 |
Motion, on a reconsideration of that part of the seventh proposition, which declares that the national executive shall be chosen by the national legislature, to substitute therefor that the national executive be elected by the executives of the states, their proportion of votes to be the same as In electing the second branch of the national legislature — Disagreed to.
Monday, June 11, |
178 |
Motion to consider Mr. Randolph's second proposition, as to the right of suffrage in the national legislature, which had been postponed — Agreed to — Motion to substitute therefor, that the right of suffrage in the national legislature ought not to be according to the rule in the Articles of Confederation, (an equality, each state having one vote therein,) but according to some equitable ratio of representation — Agreed to — Motion that this equitable ratio of representation should be according to the quotas of contribution — Postponed — Motion that this equitable ratio of representation should be in proportion to the number of free citizens and inhabitants, and three fifths of other persons in each state — Agreed to — Motion that there should be an equality of suffrage in the second branch of the national legislature, each state to have one vote therein — Disagreed to — Motion that the right of suffrage should be the same in each branch — Agreed to.
Motion to consider Mr. Randolph's eleventh proposition, guarantying republican government and its territory to each state, which had been postponed — Agreed to — Motion to amend it, so as to guaranty to each state a republican constitution, and its existing laws — Agreed to.
Motion to consider Mr. Randolph's thirteenth proposition, providing for amendments to the Constitution, which had been postponed, agreed to — Motion that provision for amendments ought to be made — Agreed to — That the assent of the national legislature ought not to be required — Postponed.
Motion to consider Mr. Randolph's fourteenth proposition, requiring oaths of national and state officers to observe the national Constitution, which had been postponed — Agreed to — Motion to strike out the part requiring oaths of state officers — Disagreed to — Proposition agreed to.
Tuesday, June 12, |
183 |
Mr. Randolph's fifteenth proposition relative to ratification of the Constitution by state conventions considered and agreed to.
Motion to consider that part of Mr. Randolph's fourth proposition relative to the qualifications of the members of the first branch, which had been postponed — Agreed to — Motion that the members of the first branch shall be elected every three years — Agreed to — Shall be of ——— years of age — Disagreed to — Shall be allowed a fixed compensation, to be paid out of the national treasury — Agreed to — Shall be ineligible to state or national offices during their term of service, or for one year after — Agreed to — Shall be incapable of reëlection for ——— years after, and subject to recall — Disagreed to.
The part of Mr. Randolph's fifth proposition relative to qualifications of the members of the second branch, considered — Motion that the members of the second branch shall be of the age of thirty years — Agreed to — Shall hold their offices for the term of seven years — Agreed to — Shall be entitled to no compensation — Disagreed to — Shall be subject to the same qualifications, as to compensation and ineligibility, as the members of the first branch — Agreed to.
Tuesday, June 13, |
187 |
The part of Mr. Randolph's ninth proposition relative to the jurisdiction of the national judiciary was struck out — Motion that national judiciary shall have jurisdiction in cases of national revenue, impeachments of national officers, and questions of national peace and harmony — Agreed to — Motion that the judges of
