the causes relative to the importation and migration of slaves, and to a capitation tax, and navigation act, to a grand committee — Agreed to — Motion to prohibit attainders or ex post facto laws — Agreed to — Motion to require the legislature to discharge the debts, and fulfil the engagements, of the United States — Agreed to.
Thursday, August 23, |
464 |
Article seventh, relative to the powers of the legislature, resumed — Motion requiring them to organize the militia, when in the service of the United States, reserving the training and appointment of officers to the states — Agreed to — Motion to prohibit foreign presents, offices, or titles, to any officer, without consent of the legislature — Agreed to.
Article eighth, relative to the supreme authority of acts of the legislature and treaties — Agreed to.
Article seventh, relative to the powers of the legislature, resumed — Motion to refer to a committee, to consider the propriety of a power to them to negative state laws — Disagreed to.
Article ninth, relative to the powers of the Senate — Motion to require treaties to be ratified by law — Disagreed to.
Friday, August 24, |
470 |
Report of the grand committee on the importation and migration of slaves, and a capitation tax, and navigation act.
Article ninth, relative to the powers of the Senate, resumed — Motion to strike out the power to decide controversies between the states — Agreed to.
Article tenth, relative to the executive — Motion that the executive be elected by the people — Disagreed to — By electors chosen by the people of the states — Disagreed to — By joint ballot of the legislature, and a majority of the members present — Agreed to — Motion that each state have one vote in electing the executive — Disagreed to — Motion to require the President to give information to the legislature — Agreed to — Motion to restrain appointing power by law — Disagreed to — Motion to except from the appointing power offices otherwise provided for by the Constitution — Agreed to — Motion to authorize, by law, appointments by state legislatures and executives — Disagreed to.
Saturday, August 25, |
475 |
Article seventh, relative to the powers of the legislature, resumed — Motion that, in discharging the debts of the United States, they shall be considered as valid under the Constitution as they were under the Confederation — Agreed to — Motion to postpone the prohibition for importing slaves to 1808 — Agreed to — Motion to confine the clause to such states as permit the importation of slaves — Disagreed to — Motion that the tax on such importation shall not exceed ten dollars for each person — Agreed to — Motion that a capitation tax shall be in proportion to the census — Agreed to.
Article tenth, relative to the executive, resumed — Motion to limit reprieves to the meeting of the Senate, and requiring their consent to pardons — Disagreed to — Motion to except cases of impeachment from the pardoning power — Agreed to — Motion that his pardons shall not be pleadable in bar — Disagreed to.
Monday, August 27, |
480 |
Article tenth, relative to the executive, resumed — Motion to limit his command of the militia to their being in the service of the United States — Agreed to — Motion to require an oath from the executive — Agreed to.
Article eleventh, relative to the judiciary — Motion to confer equity powers on the courts — Agreed to — Motion that the judges may De removed by the executive, on application of the legislature — Disagreed to — Motion that the salaries of judges should not be increased while they are in office — Disagreed to — Motion to extend jurisdiction to cases in which the United States are a party, or arising under the Constitution, or treaties, or relating to lands granted by different states — Agreed to — Motion to extend the appellate jurisdiction to law and fact — Agreed to.
Tuesday, August 28, |
483 |
Article eleventh, relative to the judiciary — Motion to confine the appellate jurisdiction in certain cases to the Supreme Court — Agreed to — Motion that crimes not committed within any state be tried where the legislature directs — Agreed to — Motion that the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless required by invasion or rebellion — Agreed to.
Article twelfth, relative to the prohibitions on the power of the states — Motions to prohibit them absolutely from emitting bills of credit, legalizing any tender except gold or silver, or passing attainders or retrospective laws, or laying duties on imports — Agreed to — Motion to forbid them to lay embargoes — Disagreed to.
Article thirteenth, relative to the prohibitions on slaves, unless authorized by the national legislature — Motion to include in these duties on exports, and, if permitted, to be for the use of the United States — Agreed to.
Article fourteenth, relative to the rights of citizens of one state in another — Agreed to.
Article fifteenth, relative to the delivery of persons fleeing to other states — Motion to extend it to all cases of crime — Agreed to — Motion to extend it to fugitive slaves — Withdrawn.
Wednesday, August 29, |
487 |
Article sixteenth, relative to the effect of public records and documents of one state in another— Motion to refer it to a committee to add a provision relative to bankruptcies and foreign judgments — Agreed to.
Article seventh, relative to the powers of the legislature, resumed — Motion to require two thirds of each House on acts
