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U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition)

Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.

Rules Committee

Committee charged with creating the rules and standing orders to govern meetings of the Convention.

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Additional Instructions to the Rules Committee

Creator event:

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Date: 28 May 1787, 10:00

Additional Instructions to the Rules Committee

Proposed Rules and Standing Orders of the Convention

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U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Date: 26 May 1787, 10:00

Proposed Rules and Standing Orders of the Convention

People: Alexander Hamilton George Wythe Charles Pinckney

Last decision:

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Date: 26 May 1787, 10:00

On motion of Mr C. Pinckney — ordered that a Committee be appointed to draw up rules to be observed as the standing Orders of the Convention — and to report the same to the House. [Editors' note: It is clear from this passage and standard procedure in...

Proposed Additional Rules and Standing Orders of the Convention

Creator event:

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Date: 28 May 1787, 10:00

Proposed Additional Rules and Standing Orders of the Convention

People: Charles Pinckney Alexander Hamilton George Wythe

Last decision:

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Date: 28 May 1787, 10:00

[Editors' note: On 29 May 1787, the Official Journal records that 'Mr Wythe reported, from the Committee to whom the motions made by Mr Butler and Mr Spaight were referred, that the Committee had examined the matters of the said motions, and had come...