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Fringe Meetings at the U.S. Consitutional Convention
Record of an Unofficial Meeting - 22 May 1787
Tuesday, 22 May 1787
Madison records on 28 May 1787 that prior to the arrival of enough states for the Convention to be considered quorate and commence its business (25 May) a discussion took place between those delegates present from the larger states.
Fringe Meetings at the U.S. Consitutional Convention
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- Bill for an Evening of Entertainment for George Washington - 14 September 1787
- Diary Entry Recording Meeting of Maryland Delegation - 7 August 1787
- Diary Record of an Informal Meeting - 13 July 1787
- George Washington's Dairy - 6 June 1787
- George Washington's Dairy - 22 July 1787
- George Washington's Diary - 1 June 1787
- George Washington's Diary - 2 July 1787
- George Washington's Diary - 3 July 1787
- George Washington's Diary - 4 July 1787
- George Washington's Diary - 4 June 1787
- George Washington's Diary - 6 July 1787
- George Washington's Diary - 7 June 1787
- George Washington's Diary - 8 August 1787
- George Washington's Diary - 14 September 1787
- George Washington's Diary - 17 September 1787
- George Washington's Diary - 19 June 1787
- Invitation to Dine at the Indian Queen - 2 July 1787
- Letter Recording Informal Meetings of Virginians - 20 May 1787
- Letter Recording Visit to a Steamboat Trial - 22 August 1787
- Letter on a Dinner Held at Franklin's House - 16 May 1787
- Record of a Meeting of Delegates from Maryland - 31 August 1787
- Record of an Unofficial Meeting - 17 July 1787
- Record of an Unofficial Meeting - 22 May 1787
- William Samuel Johnson's Diary - 6 July 1787
- William Samuel Johnson's Diary - 6 June 1787
- William Samuel Johnson's Diary - 7 June 1787
- William Samuel Johnson's Diary - 8 September 1787
- William Samuel Johnson's Diary - 11 August 1787
- William Samuel Johnson's Diary - 11 June 1787
- William Samuel Johnson's Diary - 12 September 1787
- William Samuel Johnson's Diary - 13 June 1787
- William Samuel Johnson's Diary - 18 June 1787
- William Samuel Johnson's Diary - 18 September 1787
- William Samuel Johnson's Diary - 25 August 1787
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Madison records on 28 May 1787 that prior to the arrival of enough states for the Convention to be considered quorate and commence its business (25 May) a discussion took place between those delegates present from the larger states.
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Previous to the arrival of a majority of the States, the rule by which they ought to vote in the Convention had been made a subject of conversation among the members present. It was pressed by Gouverneur Morris and favored by Robert Morris and others from Pennsylvania, that the large States should unite in firmly refusing to the small States an equal vote, as unreasonable, and as enabling the small States to negative every good system of Government, which must in the nature of things, be founded on a violation of that equality. The members from Virginia, conceiving that such an attempt might beget fatal altercations between the large & small States, and that it would be easier to prevail on the latter, in the course of the deliberations, to give up their equality for the sake of an effective Government, than on taking the field of discussion, to disarm themselves of the right & thereby throw themselves on the mercy of the large States, discountenanced & stifled the project.
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Madison's Notes (Max Farrand, 1911)