Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.
The main chamber of the Constitutional Convention, consisting of all delegates.
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First Committee on Representation reported. Connecticut Compromise reintroduced.
[Report of the First Committee on Representation as Amended by the Convention]
1. That the suffrages of the several States be regulated and proportioned according to the sums to be paid towards the General Revenue by the inhabitants of each State respectively — That an apportionment of suffrages, according to the ratio aforesaid, shall be made and regulated at the end of years from the first Meeting of the Legislature of the United-States — and so from time to time at the end of every years thereafter — but that for the present, and until the period first above mentioned shall have one suffrage &ca