| of two thirds of the members present in each House.” | eration has made
the assent of nine States necessary, I have made the assent of ⅔ds. of both Houses, when assembled in Congress, and added to the number the regulation of trade and acts for levying an Impost and raising a revenue”. |
| The 14th article gives the Legislature power to admit new States into the Union on the same terms with the original States by ⅔ of both Houses.—nothing further | “I have also added an article authorising the United States, upon petition from the
majority of the Citizens of any State, or Convention authorised for that purpose, and of the Legislature of the State to which they wish to be annexed, or of the States among which they are willing to be divided, to consent to such junction or division, on the terms mentioned in the article.”[1] |
| Plan. | Pamphlet. |
| no such provision. | page 25. “a provision respecting the attendance of the members of both
Houses; the penalties under which their attendance is required, are such as to insure it, as we are to suppose no man |
- ↑ The two paragraphs following were crossed out:
A number of important articles are referred to in the pamphlet & not found in the plan—for example “the provision respecting the attendance of the members of both Houses; the penalties under which their attendance is required, are such as to insure it, as we are to suppose no man would willingly expose himself to the ignominy of a disqualification (pa 25) providing for the writ of Habeas Corpus & trial by Jury in Civil cases (page 26)—“to secure to authors the exclusive right to their performances and discoveries” page 26.
So also In the plan presented the powers of the Senate are given in Article 7th. tho’ ⟨The mode of appointment on the rotative principles each mode of appointment class for 4 years,⟩ the mode of appointment of that body it is silent The latter is given in the pamphlet but its powers are not enumerated. The restriction on members of both Houses from holding any office under the union is not adverted to in the pamphlet—nor the power of the Legislature to appoint a Treasurer, to establish post and military roads &c.
