KECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION 589 Thur.?day MADISON ?4ugu?t z$ On the question to agree (to) Art. VII--sect. 7. (as re- ported)? It passed nero: contrad: Mr Pinkhey urged the necessity of preserving foreign Ministers & other officers of the U.S. independent of external influence and moved to insert- after Art VII sect 7. the clause following--"No person holding any office of profit or trust under the U.S. shall without the consent of the Legis- lature, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State which passed hem: contrad. ? Mr. Rutlidge moved to amend Art: VIII to read as fol- lows, "This Constitution & the laws of the U.S. made in pur- suance thereof, and all Treaties made under the authority of the U.S. shall be the supreme law of the several States and of their citizens and inhabitants; and the Judges in the sev- eral States shall be bound thereby in their decisions, any thing in the Constitutions or laws of the several States, to the contrary notwithstanding" __7 which was agreed to, nero: contrad: Art: IX being next for consideration, s Mr Govr Morris argued asst. the appolntment of officer? by the Senate. He considered the body as_ too numerous for the purpose; as subject to cabal; and as devoid of respon- sibility. -- If Judges were to be tried by the Senate according to a late report of a Committee it was particularly wrong to let the Senate have the filling of vacancies which its own decrees were to create. Mr. Vqilson was o� the same oplnlon & for like reasons. The art IX-- being waved-- and art VII. sect I. resumed? Mr Govr Morris moved to strike the following words out ? Article VII, Sect. 7. "The United States shall not grant any tide of NobilitF." s gee Appendix A, CCXII.
- See Appendix A, CXCII, CCCXCVIII.
s Article IX, Sect. I. "The Senate of the United State? shall have power to make treaties, and to appoint Ambassadors, and Judges of the supreme Court." ? Article VII, Sect. x (clause I8). "To call forth the aid of the mlh'tla, in order to execute the laws of the Union, enforce treaties, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions; ",
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