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Massachusetts, April 6,......
Connecticut, May 2d, Thursday,
New York, Feb. 28,...

New Jersey, Nov. 23,

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Pennsylvania, March 28,

1787.

May 14. JOURNAL OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION:
List of Members,....

28-9. RULES,.

Mr. EDMUND RANDOLPH'S FIFTEEN PROPOSITIONS,

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Mr. CHARLES PINCKNEY'S DRAFT OF A FEDERAL CONSTITUTION,
30. Mr. Randolph's Propositions considered in Committee,..
31. Right of Suffrage further considered; Legislative Rights,..

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16, 18. Mr. P.'s Propositions considered; Revisal of Confederation,.
Col. HAMILTON'S PLAN OF GOVERNMENT, in Eleven Propositions,.

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2. Term of Service, Choice, Salary, limited Period, Ineligibility, Impeach-

4. Negative or Veto,.

5. National Judiciary; New States,

7. Elections by Districts,.

8. Representative Classes,.

9, 11. Executive Suffrage,

Suffrage; Ratio; Vote,.

Republican Constitution; Amendments,.

12. Term of Service; Salary,..

13. Jurisdiction of the Supreme Tribunal,.

Money Bills,

14, 15. Mr. PATTERSON'S ELEVEN PROPOSITIONS,

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Mr. RANDOLPH'S NINETEEN RESOLUTIONS Submitted, as altered, amend-
ed, and agreed to,

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25. Second Branch chosen by the Legislatures; Service; Age, 30 Years,. 187
26. Biennial Term; Pay; Eligibility,

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27. Right of Suffrage in the First Branch, according to the Confederation,. 191
28. Right of Suffrage in First or Second Branch,

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29. Right of Suffrage; equal Vote in the Senate,

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30. New Hampshire Delegates requested to attend; equal Vote,.

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July 2. Equal Vote in the Second Branch; Suffrage,

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5. Report on Ratio of Representation; Money Bills to originate in the
First Branch,

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Note. Census and Quotas in 1785,

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6. Reference and Votes,..

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Money Bills not to be altered in the Second Branch; Appropriations;
First Branch,

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7. Use of the Philadelphia Library offered to the Convention; Equal Vote, 196
9. Apportionment of Representatives, (56.)
Census for the Population and Wealth,

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10. Apportionment for, (65.)....

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Propositions to alter the Number of Representatives in New Hampshire,
North and South Carolina, and Georgia,

11. Census; the "Three fifths of the Inhabitants of other Descriptions," &c. 199
12. Taxation according to Representation and the "Three fifths; " Census, 201
13. Assessment on Inhabitants; Census,.
Division of States hereafter, ...

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14. Representatives hereafter not to exceed the Number of the original
Thirteen States; Second Branch; Proposal to have thirty-six Mem
bers,

16. Sixty-five Representatives proposed; Money Bills,.

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July 17. Rights of the States to be protected; Negative on Laws,.
Acts and Treaties the supreme Law,

Electors, their Appointment by the Legislature; Term,.

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20. Supreme Executive; Elections; Qualifications; Removable; Im-
peachment,

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21. Pay; Negative on Acts; Nomination and Appointment of Judges, 214
23. Amendments; Oath to support the Constitution,
Representation; Vote per Capita,.....

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25. Supreme Executive, six Years in any twelve; Copies of Proceedings to
be furnished each Member,.....

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26. National Executive; Seven Years proposed; to be ineligible a second
Time; Qualification of landed Property,..

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Pensioners disqualified, or Defaulters; Seat of Government not to be at
the Seat of a State Government,

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL ON THE TWENTY-THREE RES-
OLUTIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF REPORTING A CONSTITUTION,.

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Aug. 6. Report delivered, and Copies furnished,

6. DRAFT OF A CONSTITUTION BY THE COMMITTEE of Five, (debated till
September 12.)......

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7. Preamble, &c., considered in detail; Negative; Time of Meeting,.
& Residence; Taxation; Representation,.

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9. Vacancies; Resignations to be supplied by the Legislature; Qualifica-
tions,

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10. Quorum; Attendance; Concurrence; Dissent,

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11. Each House to keep a Journal and publish; Adjournment, not more
than three Days,....

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13. Citizenship; Limitation; Money Bills,

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14. Office prohibited; Pay, per Diem, $5; Mileage, same,

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18. Additional Powers to be vested, defined; Debts to be assumed,.

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20. Propositions; Privileges, &c., referred to a Committee of Five; Council
of State to assist the President; Organization of the Departments, &c.;
Treason defined,..

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21. Livingston's Report on "the Debts;" Requisitions,..

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22. Rutledge's Report on sundry Amendments,

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23. Report of Committee of Eleven; Militia; Offices; Treaties,

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24. Slaves, limiting their Importation; Choice of President,

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25. Debts; Slaves; Laws; Duties; Ports; Taxes,

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27. Reprieves; Removal; Oath; Slavery; Controversies; Judiciary,.
28. Commerce; Crimes; Bills; ex post facto Laws; Misdemeanors,.
29. Bankruptcies; Fugitive Slaves; New States,

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30. New States; Western Claims; needful Rules and Regulations; Re-
ligious Test,

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31. Representation; Constitution to be submitted to State Conventions ;

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5 to 10. Brearly's Report further considered,

12. PLAN OF THE CONSTITUTION, by the Committee of Revision of Five
Members, appointed on the 8th of September to revise the Style,
&c.,.

12. Letter to Congress on submitting the Constitution,

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13. Johnson's Resolutions for Ratification, and putting the Constitution into
Operation,....

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Madison's Minutes, completing the Journal; Votes, &c.,....
17. Constitution engrossed and signed; Representative Clause reconsid-
ered; Journal subject to the Order of Congress,.

SUPPLEMENT. - Reception of the Report of the Convention by Congress, 318

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RATIFICATIONS, showing the Order in which the Thirteen States of the old Confederation adopted the Federal Constitution,..

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14. Vermont,......... Oct. 27, 1790,

1789. March 4. AMENDMENTS proposed at the First Congress, Returns of the Decisions of the States thereon,.. AMENDMENTS-Third Congress, Second Session,.

Fourth Congress, First Session,

Fifth Congress, Second Session,
Eighth Congress, First Session,

LUTHER MARTIN'S LETTER, disclosing the Proceedings of the Federal Convention, addressed to the Legislature of Maryland,............344 to 389 ROBERT YATES'S MINUTES of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention, from May 25 to June 5,......

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YATES AND LANSING'S LETTER to the Governor of New York, furnishing their Reasons for not subscribing to the Constitution,

EDMUND RANDOLPH'S LETTER to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, Virginia, containing his Reasons for not subscribing to the Federal Constitution,

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SHERMAN AND ELLSWORTH to the Governor of Connecticut,.
ELBRIDGE GERRY's Reasons for not signing the Federal Constitution,
GEORGE MASON's Objections to the Federal Constitution, (a Virginia Delegate.) 494
JOHN JAY'S ADDRESS on the proposed Federal Constitution to the People of
New York,..

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RICHARD HENRY LEE'S LETTER to the Governor of Virginia,

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GOUVERNEUR MORRIS to General Washington, and also to Timothy Pickering,. 505 JAMES MADISON to Mr. Sparks, on G. Morris's Course in the Federal Convention, 507

DIGEST OF THE CONSTITUTION.

Acts, records, and judicial proceedings of each state, entitled to faith and credit in other states,

Amendments to the Constitution, how made,.

Appropriations by law.

(See Treasury.)..

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Attainder, bill of, prohibited,..

Attainder of treason shall not work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except
during the life of the person attainted,

Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives,
Before they become laws, shall be passed by both houses, and approved

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by the President; or, if disapproved, shall be passed by two thirds of
each house,.

Bill's not returned in ten days, unless an adjournment intervene, shall be con-
sidered as approved,

Capitation Tax.- (See Tax.) ...

Census, or enumeration, to be made every ten years,..

Claims of the United States, or of the several states, not to be prejudiced by any construction of the Constitution,....

Citizens of each state shall be entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states,

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Commerce, regulations respecting, to be equal and uniform,..
Congress, vested with legislative power,

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May alter the regulations of state legislatures concerning elections of senators and representatives, except as to place of choosing senators, 1 4 Shall assemble once every year, 1 4 May provide for cases of removal of President and Vice-President, . 2 1 10 May determine the time of choosing electors of President and VicePresident,

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May invest the appointment of inferior officers in the President alone, in the courts of law, or the heads of departments, May from time to time establish courts inferior to the Supreme Court,. 3 1 12 May (with one limitation) declare the punishment of treason,.. May prescribe the manner of proving the acts, records, and judicial proceedings of each state,

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The assent of required to the formation of a new state within the juris-
diction of any other, or by the junction of two or more,
May propose amendments to the Constitution, or, on application, call a
convention,

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The assent of required to the admission of new states into the Union,.
To lay and collect duties on imposts and excises,.

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To establish uniform laws of bankruptcy and naturalization,..

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To coin money, regulate the value of coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures,.....

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To define and punish piracies, felonies on the high seas, and offences against the laws of nations,..

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To declare war, grant letters of marque, and make rules concerning captures,

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To make rules for the government of the army and navy,

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To call for the militia in certain cases,

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To organize, arm, and discipline, the militia,.

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To exercise exclusive legislation over ten miles square,

To pass laws necessary to carry the enumerated powers into effect,
To dispose of, and make rules concerning, the territory or other property
of the United States,

Constitution, formed by the people of the United States, Preamble,

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How amended,.

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And the laws under it, and treaties, declared to be the supreme law,... 6
Rendered operative by the ratification of the Conventions of nine states, 7
Conventions for proposing amendments to Constitution,
Court, Supreme, its original and appellate jurisdiction,.
Courts, inferior to the Supreme Court, may be ordained by Congress,
Crimes, persons accused of, fleeing from justice, may be demanded,

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Debts against the Confederation to be valid against the United States under this Constitution,....

Duties on exports prohibited,..

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On imports and exports, imposed by states, shall enure to the treasury of the United States,..

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Elections, of senators and representatives, shall be prescribed by the state legislatures, as to time, place, and manner,

Qualifications and returns of members of Congress to be determined by each house,....

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Shall vote the same day, throughout the United States,....
No senator or representative, holding office under the United States,

shall serve as

Enumeration. (See Census.)

Electors of President and Vice-President, how chosen, and their duties,.... 2 1 and 12th amendment,

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Executive Power shall be vested in a President,.

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And imports, duties on by states to be payable into the treasury of the
United States,....

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Ex post facto Law, none shall be passed,

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Habeas Corpus, writ of, can only be suspended in cases of rebellion or in

vasion,

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House of Representatives. (See Representatives.)

House. (See Senate.)

Judges shall hold their offices during good behavior,

The compensations of, shall not be diminished during continuance in
office,.

Judicial power, vested in a Supreme Court and courts inferior,
The cases to which it extends,

Impeachment, all civil officers liable to....

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Persons found guilty by, liable to indictment and punishment for the offence,

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Importation of Slaves, until prohibited, a duty authorized on, after 1808,

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Judicial proceedings, records, and acts of each state, are entitled to faith and credit in every other state,..

Jury trial shall be held in the state where the crime shall have been committed,....

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If the crime have not been committed within a state, the trial shall be held at the place Congress shall have directed,... Jury, trial by, secured, in prosecutions for all crimes, except in cases of impeachment,

And in suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars. 7th amendment,

Law, supreme, the Constitution, the laws under it, and treaties declared to be,

Legislative powers vested in Congress. (See Congress.)

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Money shall be drawn from the treasury only by laws appropriating,....... 1 9

Nobility, titles of, shall not be granted by the United States,.......

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Officers of the Senate, except their president, shall be chosen by the Senate, 1 3
Civil, may be removed by impeachment,..

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Orders of one house, requiring the concurrence of the other. (See Resolution,).

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Persons held to labor or service, their importation or migration into the
United States may be prohibited after 1808,

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Escaping from one state into another, shall be delivered up to those entitled to service,....

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Powers not delegated are reserved to the people, or, when not prohibited,

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Presents, emoluments, office, or title from, a foreign king, prince, or state, to persons holding offices of profit or trust, prohibited,

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