CREDENTIALS: - New Hampshire, dated June 27,.. 126 | Delaware, Feb. 3,.... Page. 130 Massachusetts, April 6,...... New Jersey, Nov. 23, .......... Pennsylvania, March 28, 1787. May 14. JOURNAL OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION: 28-9. RULES,. Mr. EDMUND RANDOLPH'S FIFTEEN PROPOSITIONS, 139 .141, 143 141 Mr. CHARLES PINCKNEY'S DRAFT OF A FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, 16, 18. Mr. P.'s Propositions considered; Revisal of Confederation,. - 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, 156 158 160 163 165 166 167 168 169 171 .... Mr. RANDOLPH'S NINETEEN RESOLUTIONS Submitted, as altered, amend- 180 181 183 25. Second Branch chosen by the Legislatures; Service; Age, 30 Years,. 187 189 190 27. Right of Suffrage in the First Branch, according to the Confederation,. 191 191 29. Right of Suffrage; equal Vote in the Senate, 191 30. New Hampshire Delegates requested to attend; equal Vote,. 192 July 2. Equal Vote in the Second Branch; Suffrage, 193 5. Report on Ratio of Representation; Money Bills to originate in the 193 Note. Census and Quotas in 1785, 194 6. Reference and Votes,.. 195 Money Bills not to be altered in the Second Branch; Appropriations; 195 7. Use of the Philadelphia Library offered to the Convention; Equal Vote, 196 196 197 10. Apportionment for, (65.).... 197 198 Propositions to alter the Number of Representatives in New Hampshire, 11. Census; the "Three fifths of the Inhabitants of other Descriptions," &c. 199 ...... 14. Representatives hereafter not to exceed the Number of the original 16. Sixty-five Representatives proposed; Money Bills,. .... VOL. I. B 1787. Page. July 17. Rights of the States to be protected; Negative on Laws,. Electors, their Appointment by the Legislature; Term,. 20. Supreme Executive; Elections; Qualifications; Removable; Im- 212 21. Pay; Negative on Acts; Nomination and Appointment of Judges, 214 25. Supreme Executive, six Years in any twelve; Copies of Proceedings to 218 26. National Executive; Seven Years proposed; to be ineligible a second 219 Pensioners disqualified, or Defaulters; Seat of Government not to be at REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL ON THE TWENTY-THREE RES- Aug. 6. Report delivered, and Copies furnished, 6. DRAFT OF A CONSTITUTION BY THE COMMITTEE of Five, (debated till 223 224 7. Preamble, &c., considered in detail; Negative; Time of Meeting,. 230 232 9. Vacancies; Resignations to be supplied by the Legislature; Qualifica- 234 10. Quorum; Attendance; Concurrence; Dissent, 236 11. Each House to keep a Journal and publish; Adjournment, not more 238 13. Citizenship; Limitation; Money Bills, 240 14. Office prohibited; Pay, per Diem, $5; Mileage, same, 18. Additional Powers to be vested, defined; Debts to be assumed,. 247 20. Propositions; Privileges, &c., referred to a Committee of Five; Council 249 21. Livingston's Report on "the Debts;" Requisitions,.. 253 22. Rutledge's Report on sundry Amendments, 256 23. Report of Committee of Eleven; Militia; Offices; Treaties, 258 24. Slaves, limiting their Importation; Choice of President, 261 ..... 25. Debts; Slaves; Laws; Duties; Ports; Taxes, 264 27. Reprieves; Removal; Oath; Slavery; Controversies; Judiciary,. 267 270 272 30. New States; Western Claims; needful Rules and Regulations; Re- 274 31. Representation; Constitution to be submitted to State Conventions ; 5 to 10. Brearly's Report further considered, 12. PLAN OF THE CONSTITUTION, by the Committee of Revision of Five 12. Letter to Congress on submitting the Constitution, .297 to 305 305 13. Johnson's Resolutions for Ratification, and putting the Constitution into 306 Madison's Minutes, completing the Journal; Votes, &c.,.... SUPPLEMENT. - Reception of the Report of the Convention by Congress, 318 RATIFICATIONS, showing the Order in which the Thirteen States of the old Confederation adopted the Federal Constitution,.. Page. 319 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, 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,...... ....389 to 479 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, 480 ..482 to 491 SHERMAN AND ELLSWORTH to the Governor of Connecticut,. 491 492 RICHARD HENRY LEE'S LETTER to the Governor of Virginia, 496 503 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.).. ...... Attainder, bill of, prohibited,.. Attainder of treason shall not work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, by the President; or, if disapproved, shall be passed by two thirds of Bill's not returned in ten days, unless an adjournment intervene, shall be con- 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, ... Commerce, regulations respecting, to be equal and uniform,.. ..... 4 2 13 1 9 7 1 1 3 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, .... 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, 11 3 3 13 4 1 13 The assent of required to the formation of a new state within the juris- 4 3 14 5 1 14 The assent of required to the admission of new states into the Union,. To establish uniform laws of bankruptcy and naturalization,.. 1 8 1 8 446666 To coin money, regulate the value of coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures,..... To define and punish piracies, felonies on the high seas, and offences against the laws of nations,.. To declare war, grant letters of marque, and make rules concerning captures, To make rules for the government of the army and navy, 1 8 To call for the militia in certain cases, 1 8 To organize, arm, and discipline, the militia,. 1 8 To exercise exclusive legislation over ten miles square, To pass laws necessary to carry the enumerated powers into effect, Constitution, formed by the people of the United States, Preamble, 1 8 1 8 66666677 ... 4 3 14 1 How amended,. 5 1 14 And the laws under it, and treaties, declared to be the supreme law,... 6 Debts against the Confederation to be valid against the United States under this Constitution,.... Duties on exports prohibited,.. 61 15 19 57 On imports and exports, imposed by states, shall enure to the treasury of the United States,.. 1 10 8 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,.... Art. Sec. Ps. 1 4 3 1 5 4 Shall vote the same day, throughout 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, 2 1 10 2 1 1 2 2 1 9 Executive Power shall be vested in a President,. And imports, duties on by states to be payable into the treasury of the 1 10 Ex post facto Law, none shall be passed, 1 9 87 Habeas Corpus, writ of, can only be suspended in cases of rebellion or in vasion, 19 7 ....... 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 Judicial power, vested in a Supreme Court and courts inferior, Impeachment, all civil officers liable to.... 2 4 11 Persons found guilty by, liable to indictment and punishment for the offence, 1 3 Importation of Slaves, until prohibited, a duty authorized on, after 1808, 1 9 37 ... 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,.... ...... .... ..... 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.) Money shall be drawn from the treasury only by laws appropriating,....... 1 9 Nobility, titles of, shall not be granted by the United States,....... 1 9 Officers of the Senate, except their president, shall be chosen by the Senate, 1 3 Orders of one house, requiring the concurrence of the other. (See Resolution,). Persons held to labor or service, their importation or migration into the Escaping from one state into another, shall be delivered up to those entitled to service,.... 4 2 13 Powers not delegated are reserved to the people, or, when not prohibited, Presents, emoluments, office, or title from, a foreign king, prince, or state, to persons holding offices of profit or trust, prohibited, 1 9 b |