- House: Committee of the Whole
House: Committee of the Whole
A House committee that included all members of the House
United States Bill of Rights 1789 (2021 Edition)
Twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution, introduced in September 1789 by Congress.
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Membership (59 members):
- Benjamin Huntington ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- Roger Sherman ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- Jonathan Sturges ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- Jonathan Trumbull ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- Jeremiah Wadsworth ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- John Vining ( Delaware Delegation ) Visualize
- Abraham Baldwin ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- James Jackson ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- George Mathews ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- Daniel Carroll ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- Benjamin Contee ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- George Gale ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- Joshua Seney ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- William Smith ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- Michael Jenifer Stone ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- Fisher Ames ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- Elbridge Gerry ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- Benjamin Goodhue ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- Jonathan Grout ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- George Leonard ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- George Partridge ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- Theodore Sedgwick ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- George Thatcher ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- Abiel Foster ( New Hampshire Delegation ) Visualize
- Nicholas Gilman ( New Hampshire Delegation ) Visualize
- Samuel Livermore ( New Hampshire Delegation ) Visualize
- Elias Boudinot ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- Lambert Cadwalader ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- James Schureman ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas Sinnickson ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- Egbert Benson ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- William Floyd ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- John Hathorn ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- John Laurance ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- Peter Silvester ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- Jeremiah Van Rensselaer ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- George Clymer ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas Fitzsimmons ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas Hartley ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Daniel Hiester ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas Scott ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Henry Wynkoop ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Aedanus Burke ( South Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Daniel Huger ( South Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- William L. Smith ( South Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas Sumter ( South Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas Tudor Tucker ( South Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Theodorick Bland ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- John Brown ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Isaac Coles ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Samuel Griffin ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Richard Bland Lee ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- James Madison ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Andrew Moore ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- John Page ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Josiah Parker ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Alexander White ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
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Sessions (21)
Congressmen join the committee and elect a chairman
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Trumbull is appointed chairman of the Committee of the Whole
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Congressmen join the committee. Madison's proposed amendments are introduced.
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Boudinot becomes chairman of the Committee of the Whole
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The Committee of the Whole is discharged from the consideration of Madison's amendments
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The Committee receives the Committee of Eleven report
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The Committee considers the Committee of Eleven report
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The Committee considers the Committee of Eleven report
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The Committee considers the Committee of Eleven report
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The Committee of the Whole report is finished and sent to the House
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