- Committee of the Whole House
Committee of the Whole House
Committee consisting of all delegates to the Convention.
U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition)
Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.
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Membership (49 members):
- Oliver Ellsworth ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- William Samuel Johnson ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- Roger Sherman ( Connecticut Delegation ) Visualize
- Richard Basset ( Delaware Delegation ) Visualize
- Gunning Bedford ( Delaware Delegation ) Visualize
- Jacob Broom ( Delaware Delegation ) Visualize
- John Dickinson ( Delaware Delegation ) Visualize
- George Read ( Delaware Delegation ) Visualize
- Abraham Baldwin ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- William Few ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- William Houstoun ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- William Pierce ( Georgia Delegation ) Visualize
- Daniel of St Thomas Jenifer ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- Luther Martin ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- James McHenry ( Maryland Delegation ) Visualize
- Elbridge Gerry ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- Nathaniel Gorham ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- Rufus King ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- Caleb Strong ( Massachusetts Delegation ) Visualize
- David Brearley ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- William Churchill Houston ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- William Livingston ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- William Paterson ( New Jersey Delegation ) Visualize
- Alexander Hamilton ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- John Lansing ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- Robert Yates ( New York Delegation ) Visualize
- William Richardson Davie ( North Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Alexander Martin ( North Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Richard Dobbs Spaight ( North Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Hugh Williamson ( North Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- George Clymer ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas Fitzsimmons ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Benjamin Franklin ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Jared Ingersol ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Thomas Mifflin ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Gouverneur Morris ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Robert Morris ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- James Wilson ( Pennsylvania Delegation ) Visualize
- Pierce Butler ( South Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Charles Pinckney ( South Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney ( South Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- John Rutledge ( South Carolina Delegation ) Visualize
- John Blair ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- James Madison ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- George Mason ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- James McClurg ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- Edmund Randolph ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- George Washington ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
- George Wythe ( Virginia Delegation ) Visualize
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Sessions (16)
Committee convened, first two resolutions of Virginia Plan considered. The form of a national government and how to determine representation debated.
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Resolutions 3 to 6. Branches of the Legislature debated.
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Resolution 7. The powers of the Executive debated.
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Resolution 7. The powers, restrictions, and selection of the Executive debated.
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Resolutions 7 and 9. The powers of and restrictions on the Executive debated. Role of the Judiciary taken under consideration.
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Resolutions 9 to 15. Powers and selection of the Judiciary debated. Considered resolutions on new states and method of initiating new constitution.
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Resolution 4. Republicanism debated, proposal that state legislatures elect first branch of Legislature rejected.
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Resolution 5. The second branch of the Legislature considered, and election to second branch by state legislatures agreed.
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Resolutions 4 and 6. Congressional negative to state laws and election of first branch of the Legislature debated.
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Resolutions 4 and 7. Voting procedures within the Legislature debated, and proposition that state executives elect the National Executive rejected.
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Resolutions 2, 11, 13, and 14. Returned to debate on modes of representation in both branches. Three-Fifths Clause introduced.
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Resolutions 4, 5, 9, and 15. Debated regulations for the Legislature, jurisdiction of National Judiciary, and ratification of Constitution.
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Resolutions 6 and 9. Jurisdiction and appointment of the National Judiciary agreed, and Money Bills debated. Virginia Plan referred back to Convention.
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New Jersey Plan debated.
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New Jersey Plan debated. Hamilton Plan introduced.
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New Jersey Plan Rejected. Final Report returned to Convention.
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