Saturday, July 14, |
310 |
Seventh resolution, relative to the proportion of suffrage in the first branch, resumed — Motion that the number of representatives in the first branch, from new states, shall never exceed those of the present states — Disagreed to.
Eighth resolution, relative to the proportion of suffrage in the second branch, resumed — Motion to provide that the second branch shall consist of thirty-six members, distributed among the states in certain proportions — Disagreed to.
Monday, July 16, |
316 |
Seventh and eighth resolutions as amended, and fixing the suffrage in both branches, resumed — Agreed to.
Sixth resolution, defining the powers of the legislature, resumed — Motion to amend by giving a specification of the powers not comprised in general terms — Disagreed to.
Tuesday, July 17, |
319 |
Sixth resolution, defining the powers of the legislature, resumed — Motion to amend, so as to provide that the national legislature should not interfere with the governments of the states in matters of internal police, in which the general welfare of the U. States is not concerned — Disagreed to — Motion to amend so as to extend the power of the legislature to cases affecting the general interests of the Union — Agreed to — Motion to agree to the power of negativing state laws — Disagreed to — Motion to provide that the acts of the legislature, and treaties made in pursuance of the Constitution, shall bind the several states — Agreed to.
Ninth resolution, relative to national executive — Motion to amend so as to provide that the executive be chosen by the people — Disagreed to — That he be chosen by electors appointed by the state legislatures — Disagreed to — Motion to amend by striking out the provision that the executive is to be ineligible a second time — Agreed to — Motion to amend so as to provide that the term of the executive should be during good behavior — Disagreed to — Motion to amend by striking out seven years as the executive term — Disagreed to.
Wednesday, July 18, |
327 |
Tenth resolution, giving the executive a negative on acts of the legislature not afterwards passed by two thirds — Agreed to.
Eleventh resolution, relative to the judiciary — Motion to amend so as to provide that the supreme judges be appointed by the executive — Disagreed to — That they be nominated and appointed by the executive, with the consent of two thirds of the second branch — Disagreed to — Motion to amend so as to provide that their compensation shall not be diminished while in office — Agreed to.
Twelfth resolution, relative to the establishment of inferior national tribunals by the legislature — Agreed to.
Thirteenth resolution, relative to powers of the national judiciary — Motion to amend by striking out their power in regard to impeachment of national officers — Agreed to — Motion to amend so as to provide that their power shall extend to all cases arising under the national laws, or involving the national peace and harmony — Agreed to.
Fourteenth resolution, providing for the admission of new states — Agreed to.
Fifteenth resolution, providing for the continuance of the Congress of the Confederation and the completion of its engagements — Disagreed to.
Sixteenth resolution, guarantying a republican government and their existing laws to the states — Motion to amend so as to provide that a republican form of government, and protection against foreign and domestic violence, be guarantied to each state — Agreed to.
Thursday, July 19, |
334 |
Ninth resolution, relative to the national executive, resumed — Motion to amend so as to provide that the executive be chosen by electors chosen by the state legislatures — Agreed to — Motion to amend so as to provide that the executive shall be ineligible a second time — Disagreed to — Motion to amend by making the executive term six years — Agreed to.
Friday, July 20, |
339 |
Ninth resolution, relative to the national executive, resumed — Motion to provide that the number of electors of the executive to be chosen by the state legislatures shall be regulated by their respective numbers of representatives in the first branch, and that at present it shall be in a prescribed ratio — Agreed to — Motion to amend by striking out the provision for impeaching the executive — Disagreed to — Motion to provide that the electors of the executive shall not be members of the national legislature, nor national officers, nor eligible to the supreme magistracy — Agreed to.
Saturday, July 21, |
344 |
Ninth resolution, relative to national executive, resumed — Motion to provide for the payment of the electors of the executive out of the national treasury — Agreed to.
Tenth resolution, relative to the negative of the executive on the legislature, resumed — Motion to amend by providing that the supreme judiciary be associated in this power — Disagreed to.
Eleventh resolution, relative to judiciary, resumed — Motion to provide that the judges be nominated by the executive, and appointed, unless two thirds of the second branch disagree thereto — Disagreed to.
Monday, July 23, |
351 |
Seventeenth resolution, providing for future amendments — Agreed to.
Eighteenth resolution, requiring the oath of state officers to support the Constitution — Agreed to.
