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U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: On 14 May, Washington writes in his diary, 'This being the day appointed for the Convention to meet, such Members as were in town assembled at the State Ho[use]; but only two States being represented – viz. –Virginia and...

People: George Washington

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Farrand writes that 'Madison, James, Jr., of Virginia. Attended on May 14 and thereafter' (Page 589, Vol. 3, Appendix B (Max Farrand, 1911)). He likely bases this assessment on a 15 May letter from Madison to Thomas Jefferson, in which...

People: James Madison

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: According to Farrand, only two delegates – Madison and Washington – were definitely present on 14 May. However, various pieces of miscellany provide more information about the delegates who arrived on this day. For instance, Washington...

People: Benjamin Franklin

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 May 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: In the 15 May entry of his diary, Washington writes, 'Repaired, at the hour appointed to the State Ho[use], but no more states being represented than were yesterday (tho' several more members had come in) we agreed to meet again to...

People: John Blair

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 May 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: In the 15 May entry of his diary, Washington writes, 'Repaired, at the hour appointed to the State Ho[use], but no more states being represented than were yesterday (tho' several more members had come in) we agreed to meet again to...

People: George Wythe

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 21 May 1787, 13:00
[Editors' note: Farrand notes King attending 'as early as May 21' (Page 588, Vol. 3, Appendix B (Max Farrand, 1911)). Farrand's account is corroborated by a letter from Gorham to Caleb Davis, which reads, 'And no Gentleman having come forward but Mr....

People: Rufus King

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 May 1787, 13:00
[Editors' note: Washington's diary entry for this day states that 'The Representation from No. Carolina was compleated which made a representation for five States' (Page 14, George Washington: Diary (James Hutson, 1987)). He does not specify the...

People: Alexander Martin

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 May 1787, 13:00
[Editors' note: Washington's journal entry for this day states that 'The Representation from No. Carolina was compleated which made a representation for five States' (Page 14, George Washington: Diary (James Hutson, 1987)). He does not specify the...

People: Hugh Williamson

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Farrand says of G. Morris' attendance, 'Attended on May 25, and probably before; he left the Convention a few days after and was absent until July 2' (Page 589, Vol. 3, Appendix B (Max Farrand, 1911)). It is possible, however, that he...

People: Gouverneur Morris

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 May 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Washington's diary entry from 21 May states that 'Delaware State was represented.' (Page 12, George Washington: Diary (James Hutson, 1987)). The credentials for the delegates from Delaware authorized George Read, Gunning Bedford, John...

People: Jacob Broom

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 May 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Washington's diary entry from 21 May states that 'Delaware State was represented.' (Page 12, George Washington: Diary (James Hutson, 1987)). The credentials for the delegates from Delaware authorized George Read, Gunning Bedford, John...

People: George Read

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 May 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: In his diary entry for 25 May, Washington notes that 'Another Delegate coming in from the State of New Jersey gave it representation and encreased the number to Seven which forming a quoram [sic] of the 13 Members present resolved to...

People: David Brearley

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 May 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Farrand notes in Appendix B of the Records that Spaight – a delegate of North Carolina – joined the Convention on 19 May, likely on the basis of a 19 May article in the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser, which listed the...

People: Richard Dobbs Spaight

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Farrand says of R. Morris' attendance, 'Attended on May 25, and probably before' (Page 589, Vol. 3, Appendix B (Max Farrand, 1911)). It is possible, however, that he was one of the Pennsylvania delegates present on 14 May. A 19 May...

People: Robert Morris

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Farrand says of Fitzsimons' attendance, 'Attended on May 25, and probably earlier' (Page 588, Vol. 3, Appendix B (Max Farrand, 1911)). It is possible, however, that he was one of the Pennsylvania delegates present on 14 May. A 19 May...

People: Thomas Fitzsimmons

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Farrand says of Wilson's attendance, 'Attended as early as May 25 (probably before) and thereafter' (Page 590, Vol. 3, Appendix B (Max Farrand, 1911)). It is possible, however, that he was one of the Pennsylvania delegates present on 14...

People: James Wilson

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of any discussion or procedure surrounding the credentials, suggesting that they were accepted without objection.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 16 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: In the 15 May entry of his diary, Washington writes, 'Repaired, at the hour appointed to the State Ho[use], but no more states being represented than were yesterday (tho' several more members had come in) we agreed to meet again to...

People: James McClurg

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 18 May 1787, 13:00
[Editors' note: Farrand says of Ingersoll's attendance, 'Attended on May 28, and probably earlier, although absent on May 25' (Page 588, Vol. 3, Appendix B (Max Farrand, 1911)). It seems likely that Ingersoll is one of the Pennsylvania delegates that...

People: Jared Ingersol

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 May 1787, 13:00
[Editors' note: Farrand notes Davie arriving on 22 May or 23 May. However, in Blount's letter to John Gray Blount from this day, he does not list Davie being present at the Convention on 22 May, as he does with Spaight, Williamson, and A. Martin. It is...

People: William Richardson Davie

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of any discussion or procedure surrounding the credentials, suggesting that they were accepted without objection.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 28 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Farrand says of Clymer's attendance, 'Attended May 28, but probably before, although absent on May 25' (Page 587, Vol. 3, Appendix B (Max Farrand, 1911)). It is possible, however, that he was one of the Pennsylvania delegates present on...

People: George Clymer

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 28 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Farrand says of Mifflin's attendance, 'Attended on May 28, and probably before, although absent on May 25' (Page 589, Vol. 3, Appendix B (Max Farrand, 1911)). It is possible, however, that he was one of the Pennsylvania delegates...

People: Thomas Mifflin

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 28 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of any discussion or procedure surrounding the credentials, suggesting that they were accepted without objection.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 28 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As the proposed rules have been debated and decided upon, the editors have dropped the Rules Committee's report for clarity in the timeline, as it is no longer under consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 28 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of any discussion or procedure surrounding the letter, suggesting that it was accepted without objection.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Having adopted the final rule, the Convention presumably adopted the rules in their entirety.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As the additional rules had been debated and decided upon, the editors have dropped the Rules Committee's report for clarity in the timeline, as it was no longer under consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 31 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of any discussion or procedure surrounding the credentials, suggesting that they were accepted without objection.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 01 Jun 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of any discussion or procedure surrounding the credentials, suggesting that they were accepted without objection.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 May 1787, 13:00
[Editors' note: Up until this point in the record, none of the members of Maryland have been noted as arriving at the Convention. Farrand, adhering to the account in the official Journal, notes the first Maryland delegate as arriving on 28 May....

People: James McHenry

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 28 May 1787, 10:00
Rule 11

People: George Wythe Alexander Hamilton Charles Pinckney

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 05 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of any discussion or procedure surrounding the credentials, suggesting that they were accepted without objection.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 19 Jun 1787, 11:00
Resolutions of the Committee of the Whole House (Amended)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 20 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of any discussion or procedure surrounding the credentials, suggesting that they were accepted without objection.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 20 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: After Ellsworth's amendment was adopted, the Convention moved on to consider the Second Resolution, indicating that the amended First Resolution was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 21 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of any discussion or procedure surrounding the credentials, suggesting that they were accepted without objection.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 21 Jun 1787, 11:00
Third Resolution - First Clause (Election of Members)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 21 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention voted to adopt Randolph's motion for three years, Ellsworth's motion for one year has been represented as dropped.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 21 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: In the following session, the Convention moved on to consideration of the third clause of the Third Resolution. It seems, then, that the amended version of the second clause was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 Jun 1787, 11:00
Third Resolution - Fourth Clause (Ineligibility to Public Office)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 May 1787, 10:00
Pinckney's Plan

People: Charles Pinckney

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: In a 19 May letter from Livingston to Brearley, Livingston writes, 'I suspect that by the middle of next week at farthest we shall have a full representation by the attendance of Mr. Clark and Mr. Patterson. Mr. Houston’s ill state of...

People: William Churchill Houston

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: By this point, the Convention had finished debating the language in the Third Resolution, and as it would go on to consider the Fourth Resolution in the next session, the last two votes are taken as evidence that the Convention adopted...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The Convention now debated the Fourth Resolution clause by clause. In order to mimic this procedure, the editors have dropped the Fourth Resolution in its 'whole' form and created a working version, onto which amendments the individual...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Since Yates emphasizes that Read's motion was not seconded, and no vote is recorded, it has been represented here as immediately dropped.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 26 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The term length having been decided, the other proposals on this clause became redundant. The confused text seen here is a result of the Quill platform being unable to represent the amendment due to the number of subsequent changes...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 26 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The term length having been decided, the other proposals on this clause became redundant and have therefore been represented as 'dropped'.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 26 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The term length having been decided, the other proposals on this clause became redundant and have therefore been represented as 'dropped'. The confused text seen here is a result of the Quill platform being unable to represent the...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 26 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention moved on to discuss the fourth clause, the third clause as amended was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 26 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The Convention moved on to the consideration of subsequent clauses, and the compensation clause was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 26 Jun 1787, 11:00
Fourth Resolution - Fifth Clause (Paid by National Treasury)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 26 Jun 1787, 11:00
Fourth Resolution - Sixth Clause (Ineligibility to Public Office)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 26 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The Convention now moved on to the Fifth Resolution, and the amended Fourth Resolution was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Jun 1787, 11:00
Seventh Resolution (Representation in First Branch of Legislature)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 Jun 1787, 10:00
Seventh Resolution - Second Clause (Proportional Representation)

People: Robert Yates

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 Jun 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The first clause of the Seventh Resolution was taken into the working document, though the remainder was still undecided. These other clauses will later be referred to a committee. The Journal on 2 July records that 'the eighth...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 Jun 1787, 10:00
Eighth Resolution (Representation in Second Branch of Legislature)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 30 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: According to Madison, Hamilton left the convention temporarily after the session on 29 June. Farrand records the following: 'Attended on May 18; left Convention June 29; was in New York after July 2; appears to have been in...

People: Alexander Hamilton

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 30 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Franklin's proposal seems to have not been seconded or attracted any discussion, so it has been represented as 'dropped'.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 02 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: As the result of the debate, CC Pinckney's motion was modified and voted on in two parts. The original version has therefore been represented as dropped.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 02 Jul 1787, 11:00
Proposals for the Consideration of the First Committee on Representation

People: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Caleb Strong

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 02 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Once the Convention had appointed a committee, it referred the proposals in question to the Committee for its consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 05 Jul 1787, 11:00
Report of the First Committee on Representation: First Proposition

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Once the Committee had been formed, the Convention referred the proposals in question for the Committee's consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Jul 1787, 11:00
Report of the First Committee on Representation: First Proposition - Second Clause

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Though the first clause of the First Proposition had been sent to the Second Committee on Representation for consideration, the vote to accept the second clause means that the Convention had decided to accept the First Proposition in...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Jul 1787, 11:00
Report of the Second Committee on Representation (Amended)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Following the creation of the Third Committee on Representation, the Convention referred the proposals in question to the Committee.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 10 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The Committee agreed to the recommendations made by the Third Committee, and those recommendations replaced the Second Committee's First Proposition.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 10 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The Committee agreed to the recommendations made by the Third Committee, and those recommendations replaced the Second Committee's First Proposition. As the Second Proposition was already agreed, the amended propositions of the Second...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 11 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The Convention decided to divide Williamson's resolution and consider it clause by clause. To mimic this process, the 'whole' version of the resolution has been dropped.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 11 Jul 1787, 11:00
Williamson's Proposition for a Census

People: Hugh Williamson

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Jul 1787, 11:00
Whole Question Called For

People: Luther Martin

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Madison says that, at the opening of the session, 'Mr. L. Martin called for the question on the whole report, including the parts relating to the origination of money bills, and the equality of votes in the 2d. branch.' (Page 2, Vol. 2,...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 16 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention agreed the amended propositions of the First Committee on Representation, the original report was dropped from consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 16 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention adopted the amended committee propositions, the original second clause of the Seventh Resolution was dropped.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 16 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention adopted the amended committee propositions, the original Eighth Resolution was dropped.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 16 Jul 1787, 11:00
Report of the First Committee on Representation Accepted

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 16 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Following the Convention adopting the Report of the First Committee on Representation, the amended propositions were re-incorporated into the main resolutions from the Convention as numbers seven and eight.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 17 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: As Martin's final amendment was agreed, the Sixth Resolution was adopted, and the Convention moved on to consider the Ninth Resolution.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 17 Jul 1787, 11:00
Ninth Resolution (Executive)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 17 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The decision to accept Houstoun's motion is, in effect, a rejection of the Sixth Clause.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 18 Jul 1787, 11:00
Thirteenth Resolution (Jurisdiction)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 18 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The Convention adopted the Thirteenth Resolution as amended.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 18 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: As both clauses of the Fifteenth Resolution were separately rejected, the whole resolution was therefore struck out.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 20 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: This motion was not mentioned again. For this reason, it has been represented here as dropped.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 21 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: In a letter to update Livingston on the goings on at the Convention and urge him to return, Dayton writes: 'Philadelphia July 13th 1787 Sir I have the mortification to inform your Excellency that, altho' we have been daily in...

People: Jonathan Dayton

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 21 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: After agreeing to the final postponed clause of the Eleventh Resolution, the Convention appears to tacitly agreed the resolution as a whole.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of any discussion or procedure surrounding the credentials, suggesting that they were accepted without objection.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Gerry's motion is not recorded in the Journal, and Madison does not note a seconder. For this reason, the editors assume that the proposal was immediately dropped for lack of a second.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 26 Jul 1787, 11:00
Further Resolutions for the Committee of Detail

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 26 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The record shows that the original version of Mason's resolution was now abandoned and the two parts debated and voted on separately.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 07 Aug 1787, 11:00
Constitution Proposed by the Committee of Detail (Amended)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 07 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: There is no evidence in the record of whether Morris's amendment was seconded, and so it may have been dropped previously for lack of a second. However, with Randolph's intervention, the motion was likely dropped at this stage at the latest.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 07 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article IV (House of Representatives)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 08 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Upon leaving Philadelphia on 21 July, Dayton had intended to return on 1 August. News of the long adjournment and business at home no doubt led to an extension of his stay. In the previous two sessions, the Secretary recorded the New...

People: Jonathan Dayton

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 08 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Dickinson's amendment is effectively a reworking of Rutledge's motion. For this reason, the editors assume that Rutledge's motion was dropped in favor of Dickinson's.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 08 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The decision to accept Pinckney's motion to remove Section 5 was, in effect, a rejection of the the section.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: With the vote to adopt the final section, the Convention tacitly agreed the Fourth Article as amended.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article V (Senate)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Madison writes that 'Mr. Randolph called for a division of the Section, so as to leave a distinct question on the last words, “each member shall have one vote”' (Page 232, Vol. 2, Madison's Notes (Max Farrand, 1911)). As a result,...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article V: Section 1 (Membership)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article V: Section 1 - Subsection 2 (One Member, One Vote)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: After agreeing the final section, the Convention adopted the amended Fifth Article.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article VI (Regulation of Legislature)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Madison writes that the 'Division of the question being called, it was taken on the first part down to "but their provisions concerning &c"' (Page 240, Vol. 2, Madison's Notes (Max Farrand, 1911)). As a result, Article VI, Section I...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article VI: Section 1 (Election Days)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article VI: Section 1 - Clause 1 (Time and Place of Election)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article VI: Section 1 - Clause 2 (Congressional Control of Elections)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 09 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The Convention took the amended second clause into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 11 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: At this point, the Convention decided to vote on the section clause by clause. To capture this procedure, the editors have represented the 'whole' version of the section as dropped and the separate clauses proposed and voted upon.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 11 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article VI: Section 7 (Record Keeping)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 11 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article VI: Section 8 - Clause 1 (No Adjournment Over Three Days)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 11 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Over the last few sessions, both Jackson's and Madison's record keeping had become sporadic. The record for these sessions is consequently confusing, and certain events appear in only one source. At this point, it is clear that the...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: This motion was likely dropped for lack of a second.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Sherman's motion was likely dropped for lack of a second.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: It appears that Ellsworth's motion was then divided. The Journal notes two votes taking place. Madison writes that the next vote was '[o]n the question for paying the Members of the Legislature out of the Natl Treasury' (Page 292, Vol....

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article VI: Section 13 (Presidential Approval)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 16 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Having debated and amended the Sixth Article, the Convention then moved on to the Seventh Article. Though they left two sections postponed, it is clear that they considered the rest of the article agreed, though no formal vote seems to...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 16 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article VII (Legislation)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 17 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Evidently, Ellsworth agreed to alter his original amendment.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 17 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention had agreed to Ellsworth's counter-proposal, Pinckney's amendment was likely dropped.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 17 Aug 1787, 11:00
Dickenson's Motion for Power to Subdue Rebellion

People: John Dickinson

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 11 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article VI: Section 8 - Clause 3 (Senate Exemption)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 11 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Over the last few sessions, both Jackson's and Madison's record keeping had become sporadic. The record for these sessions is consequently confusing, and certain events appear in only one source. At this point, it is clear that the...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 18 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Madison suggests that these proposals were agreed unanimously.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 18 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: This amendment appears to have been dropped for lack of a second.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 18 Aug 1787, 11:00
Proposals for the Committee on State Debts

People: John Rutledge

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 18 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Likely, a report containing Rutledge's proposal was sent to the Committee. The contents of this report are editorial, as no record survives.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 18 Aug 1787, 11:00
Article VII: Section 1 - Clause 16 (Navy)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 18 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The editors assume that the amended clause was now adopted, though there is no record of a final vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 18 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The editors assume that Mason's revision to his own motion was within order and therefore accepted.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 18 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The editors assume that, because Mason's and CC Pinckney's amendments were referred to a committee, Ellsworth's proposal was tacitly rejected by the Convention and therefore dropped from consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 20 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Journal notes that the Convention agreed to refer the motion.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 20 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article VII: Section 1 - Clause 17 (Militia)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 21 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: At this point, the Convention split the section into its clauses and considered them separately. To mimic this procedure, the editors have dropped the 'whole' version of the section and proposed the clauses individually.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 21 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article VII: Section 4 (Import and Export)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 21 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article VII: Section 4 - Clause 2 (Slave Trade)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 Aug 1787, 10:00
Proposals for the Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation

People: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney John Rutledge

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 Aug 1787, 10:00
Proposals on Navigation

People: John Langdon Charles Pinckney

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Per the Convention's decision to commit the Sixth Section, the section was added to the report for the Committee.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once the Committee was formed, the Convention referred its report for the Committee's consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's record of this moment differs from Jackson's in that he describes a vote taking place on each part of the clause: 'The question being divided, The first part of the motion relating to bills of attainder was agreed to nem....

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Both the Journal and Madison record only one vote, which seems to have had the effect of agreeing to Morris' amendment and the original clause.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 Aug 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on State Debts and Militia: Second Clause (Militia)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Convention decided to divide the second clause into its sub-clauses and decide upon them individually. To mimic this procedure, the editors have dropped the original clause in its 'whole' form and proposed the sub-clauses separately.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on State Debts and Militia: Second Clause (Militia)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 10:00
Second Clause: Second Part (Appointment of Officers)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once the Convention decided upon the final part of the second clause, the whole clause as amended was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once the Convention decided upon the final part of the second clause, the amended report from the Committee on State Debts and Militia was adopted.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once the Convention decided upon the final part of the second clause, the amended report from the Committee on State Debts and Militia was adopted. As a result, the original Committee Report was effectively dropped from consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The agreed clauses proposed by the Committee were integrated into the text of the Committee of Detail's amended Constitution.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article VIII (Legislative Supremacy)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Journal suggests that the Convention then split the section into its clauses to consider them individually. To mimic this procedure, the editors have dropped the 'whole' version of the section and proposed the clauses separately.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article IX: Section 1 (Foreign Policy and Appointments)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 24 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The decision to agree to Rutledge's 'striking out' amendment was, in effect, a decision to reject Sections 2 and 3.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 24 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article X: Section 1 - Clauses 4 and 5 (Elections and Terms)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 24 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Though the last two clauses had been postponed, the rest of the section seems to have been agreed.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once the Convention had finished with their reconsideration of the first clause, the first section of Article VII was taken into the working version of the Constitution.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Aug 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation: Article VII: Section 4 (Import and Export)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Aug 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation: Article VII: Section 4 - Clause 1 (Slave Trade)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Aug 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation: Article VII: Section 4 - Clause 2 (Taxation of Slave Trade)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention had agreed both clauses, the editors assume the whole section was taken into the working document, though the delegates did not explicitly vote to do so.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: McHenry's and Pinckney's propositions were added to the propositions for the Committee.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Though it is not explicitly stated in any of the sources, it seems that the Convention began to consider each section clause by clause. To mimic this procedure, the editors have dropped the section in its 'whole' form and proposed the...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article X: Section 2 (Presidential Powers and Regulations)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article X: Section 2 - Clause 8 (Power of Pardon)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Convention tacitly agreed the eighth clause.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article X: Section 2 - Clause 9 (Commander-in-Chief)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The amended clause appears to have then been accepted, though the records are unclear regarding the procedure.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article X: Section 2 - Clauses 10 and 11 (Compensation and Oath of Office)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The next two clauses appear to have been accepted without comment or vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Convention took up the next article, suggesting that the agreed portion of the current section was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Convention took up the next article, suggesting that the section was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article XI: Section 3 - Clauses 1 and 2 (Jurisdiction Over Federal Laws and Officers)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Convention appears to have departed from procedure in its consideration of these clauses. Certain clauses are adopted with no comment, while others are postponed or amended. This behaviour operates as something of a hybrid between...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article XI: Section 3 - Clause 3 (Impeachment Trials)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article XI: Section 3 - Clause 4 (Maritime Jurisdiction)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Convention appears to have accepted the fourth clause without comment or a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article XI: Section 3 - Clause 5 (State Disputes)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The clause seems to have been taken into the working document, though there is no record of a formal vote in any of the sources.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article XI: Section 3 - Clause 6: Sub-Clause 2 (Cases of Original Jurisdiction)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Convention appears to have taken the sub-clause into the working document, though none of the sources notes a formal vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article XI: Section 3 - Clause 7 (Appellate Jurisdiction)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once the Convention had finished amending the third section, the section was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article XI: Section 3 - Clause 8 (Inferior Courts)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The decision to strike out the clause had the same effect as rejecting the clause.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 28 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once the preceding amendment had been agreed, the third section was taken into the working document without a formal vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 28 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Convention divided Morris's amendment into two clauses and considered them separately. In order to mimic this procedure, the editors have dropped the 'whole' version of the amendment and proposed the clauses individually.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 28 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention chose to consider Morris' amendment further, Pinckney's original motion on habeas corpus was effectively dropped.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 28 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention moved on to consider the next article, the editors assume that Article XI was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 28 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Rutledge's motion to insert 'nor pass bills of attainder nor retrospective laws' replaced King's motion.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Following the selection of members to the Committee, the Convention referred the propositions for Article XVI to the Committee for consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 Aug 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation Accepted: Article VII: Section 4 - Clause 2

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Convention accepted the amended Committee propositions, which were taken into the working document as Article VII: Section 4, Clause 2.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The amended Committee propositions were taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 Aug 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation Accepted: Article VII: Section 5

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The amended Committee propositions were taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once its propositions had been debated, amended, and accepted, the original report was dropped from the Convention's consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 30 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article XVIII: Clause 2 (Protection from Violence)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 30 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once the Convention had agreed the amended second clause, Article XVIII was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 10:00
Article XXIII: Section 2 (Execution of Constitution)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once the Convention had amended the second section, the section was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on Commercial Discrimination (Amended)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on Commercial Discrimination: Third Clause

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The amended Committee report was tacitly adopted.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on Commercial Discrimination Accepted

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As it had accepted the Report of the Committee on Commercial Discrimination, the Convention would have included the amended propositions in Article VII: Section 4 of the draft Constitution.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As it had decided on the final unresolved part of Article VII, the Convention took the article into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As it had accepted the amended Report of the Committee on Commercial Discrimination, the Convention tacitly dropped the original report from consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The postponed parts of the draft Constitution and the Second Report of the Committee of Detail were referred to the Committee.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: It seems likely that several members of the Committee were given a copy of Mason's propositions, and though it was not officially referred, the document has been shown as playing a part in their deliberations.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on Interstate Comity and Bankruptcy (Amended)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on Interstate Comity and Bankruptcy: First Proposition

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on Interstate Comity and Bankruptcy: Second Proposition

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Having debated, amended, and agreed both propositions of the report, the Convention had finished considering the report and likely considered it tacitly agreed, though there is no record of a final vote on the report in its entirety.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
Report of the Committee on Interstate Comity and Bankruptcy Accepted

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The result of agreeing to the amended Report of the Committee on Interstate Comity and Bankruptcy was that the propositions for Article VII: Section 1 and Article XVI were incorporated into the text of the draft Constitution. Further,...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As a result of agreeing to the amended Report of the Committee on Interstate Comity and Bankruptcy, the original report was dropped from consideration in the Convention.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
First Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters (Amended)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
First Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters: Article VI: Section 9 (Ineligibility to Public Office)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Journal states that '[s]eparate questions having been taken on the report as amended they passed in the affirmative' (Page 487, Vol. 2, Official Journal (Max Farrand, 1911)). This statement suggests that the report was considered...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
First Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters: Article VI: Section 9 - First Clause (Legislators Ineligible to Public Office)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
First Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters: Article VI: Section 9 - Second Clause (Office Holders Ineligible to be Legislators)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
First Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters Accepted

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The result of agreeing to the amended First Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters is that the proposition for Article VI: Section 9 was incorporated into the text of the draft Constitution.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The result of agreeing to the amended First Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters and incorporating the proposition for Article VI: Section 9 into the text of the draft Constitution is that the original report was dropped from...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 04 Sep 1787, 10:00
Second Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters (Amended)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 05 Sep 1787, 10:00
Third Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters (Amended)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 05 Sep 1787, 10:00
Third Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters: Third Proposition

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 05 Sep 1787, 10:00
Third Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters: Fourth Proposition

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 05 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention agreed to both clauses of the Fourth Proposition, the whole proposition was effectively accepted.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 05 Sep 1787, 10:00
Resolution and Order on Costs of Convention

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 05 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once the Convention had agreed the resolution and order, it tacitly adopted the whole document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 05 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention adopted the amended versions of the resolution and order, the editors have dropped the 'whole' version these texts, as they were no longer under consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The records indicate that the Convention then decided to split the proposition into its separate parts. To mimic this procedure, the editors have dropped the 'whole' version of the proposition in order to propose the clause individually.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 05 Sep 1787, 10:00
Amendment to Require a Majority of the Whole Number of Electors

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 05 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: In recreating the Second Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters it was necessary to use both Madison's and the Journal's records. Though the editors typically prefer the Journal's version, Madison and Farrand both point out that...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Hamilton left Philadelphia on 15 August to attend to business in Congress and his legal practice in New York. Having failed to convince Lansing or Yates to return with him, he was unable to vote at the Convention. Madison records...

People: Alexander Hamilton

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Sep 1787, 10:00
Second Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters: Fourth Proposition

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Sep 1787, 10:00
Second Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters: Fourth Proposition - Third Clause

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: In the Detail of Ayes and Noes, there is a vote tally with no descriptor aside from the words 'To agree to' (Page 520, Vol. 3, Detail of Ayes and Noes (Max Farrand, 1911)). Farrand suggests that this vote was on the whole of the clause...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Sep 1787, 10:00
Second Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters: Fourth Proposition - Eighth Clause

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Though none of the sources record a vote, the editors assume that the Convention considered this clause to stand part of the text.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Convention then decided to vote on the two parts of King's Amendment separately. To mimic this procedure, the editors have dropped the 'whole' version of the amendment and proposed the two parts individually.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 07 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once the Convention finished debating the Fourth Proposition, it went on to consider the next part of the Committee's Second Report. Though there is no record of a formal vote on the whole proposition, the editors assume that it was...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 07 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention agreed to all of its clauses, the proposition was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 07 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Farrand states that Madison crossed out this resolution in his notes and then repeated it later. Madison likely did this because Mason proposed the resolution, but the Convention didn't take it up immediately. It seems more likely that...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 08 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Having debated, amended, and agreed all of the propositions of the Third Report of the Committee of Postponed Matters, the Convention tacitly agreed the report as a whole.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 08 Sep 1787, 10:00
Third Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters Accepted

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 08 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Having debated, amended, and agreed all of the propositions of the Third Report of the Committee of Postponed Matters, the Convention tacitly agreed the report as a whole. As a result, the report's propositions were taken into the draft...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 08 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Having debated, amended, and agreed all of the propositions of the Second Report of the Committee of Postponed Matters, the Convention tacitly agreed the report as a whole.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 08 Sep 1787, 10:00
Second Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters Accepted

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 08 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Having debated, amended, and agreed all of the propositions of the Second Report of the Committee of Postponed Matters, the Convention tacitly agreed the report as a whole. As a result, the report's propositions were taken into the...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 10 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention had appointed the Committee of Style and Arrangement, incorporated the several amended committee reports, and added amendments to the Committee of Detail's draft Constitution, the Convention referred the document to...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 12 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention had agreed each clause, the editors have dropped the draft version of the letter, as it was no longer under consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 13 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Paterson left the Convention after the recess on 26 July. Farrand includes a letter from Brearly urging his return. 'Philadelphia 21 Aug. 1787. I was in hopes after the Committee had reported, that we should have been able to have...

People: William Paterson

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 13 Sep 1787, 10:00
Williamson's Amendment for a Two Thirds Majority to Overturn Presidential Veto

People: Hugh Williamson

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Section 4. As the Journal noted that the draft was agreed by section, Section 3 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Section 5. As the Journal noted that the draft was agreed by section, Section 4 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Section 6. As the Journal noted that the draft was agreed by section, Section 5 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article I: Section 6 (Rights and Restrictions of Members)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The records indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Section 7. As the Journal noted that the draft was agreed by section, Section 6 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article I: Section 7 (Legislation)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Section 8. As the Journal noted that the draft was agreed by section, Section 7 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
Amendment to Grant Further Charters of Incorporation

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 13 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Jackson writes in the Journal, 'It was moved and seconded to proceed to the comparing of the report, from the Committee of revision, with the articles which were agreed to by the House [...] and the same was read by paragraphs,...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article I (Legislature)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Section 9. As the Journal noted that the draft was agreed by section, Section 8 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article I: Section 9 (Restrictions on Legislature)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As the vote for reconsideration failed, Mason's amendment was effectively dropped.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: This amendment was clearly adopted, as it is appears in the final Constitution.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Section 10. As the Journal indicated that the draft was agreed by section, Section 9 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article I: Section 10 (Prohibitions Upon States)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of a vote on McHenry's amendment, but as Langdon's amendment was adopted, McHenry's was effectively amended and agreed as well.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Article II. As the Journal previously noted that the draft was agreed by section, Section 10 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote to do so.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Article II. As the Journal previously noted that the draft was agreed by section, Article I was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote to do so.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article II (Executive)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article II: Section 1 (President)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Section 2. As the Journal previously indicated that the draft was agreed by section, Section 1 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article II: Section 2 (Presidential Powers)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The records indicate that the Convention moved on to amending Article III. As the Journal previously indicated that the draft was agreed by section, Section 2 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote. Likewise, Article...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article II: Section 3 (Presidential Responsibilities)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The records indicate that the Convention moved on to amending Article III. As the Journal previously noted that the draft was agreed by section, Section 3 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article II: Section 4 (Impeachment)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The records indicate that the Convention moved on to amend Article III. As the Journal previously noted that the draft was agreed by section, Section 4 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The records indicate that the Convention moved on to amend Article III. Therefore, Article II was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote. The records indicate that the Convention moved on to amend Article III.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article III (Judiciary)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article III: Section 1 (Federal Courts)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The records indicate that the Convention moved on to amend Section 2. As the Journal previously noted that the draft was agreed by section, Section 1 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article III: Section 2 (Jurisdiction)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The records indicate that the Convention moved on to amend Section 3. As the Journal previously indicated that the draft was agreed by section, Section 2 was likely noted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article III: Section 3 (Treason)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The records indicate that the Convention moved on to amend Article IV. As the Journal previously indicated that the draft was agreed by section, Article III: Section 3 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The records indicate that the Convention moved on to amend Article IV. Article III was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article IV (States)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article IV: Section 1 (State Laws)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The records indicate that the Convention moved on to amend Article IV: Section 2. As the Journal previously noted that the draft was agreed by section, Section 1 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article IV: Section 2 (Rights and Restrictions of State Citizenship)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Section 3. As the Journal previously indicated that the draft was agreed by section, Section 2 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Section 4. As the Journal previously noted that the draft was agreed by section, Section 3 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article IV: Section 4 (Federal Obligations)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Article V. As the Journal previously noted that the draft was agreed by section, Article IV: Section 4 was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Article V. Article IV was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Amendment to Clarify the Clauses on Slavery Not to be Altered Prior to 1808

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: At this point, the Convention likely agreed to alter and fill in the blanks in Article V, which pertained to preventing legislation against slavery before 1808.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Article VI. Article V was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article VI (Legal Supremacy, Debts and Oaths)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention moved on to consider Article VII. Article VI was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
Article VII (Ratification)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes indicate that the Convention went on to vote on the final version of the Constitution. Article VII was likely adopted, though there is no record of a vote.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once the Convention adopted the amended Constitution from the Committee of Style and Arrangement, the Committee's original report was effectively dropped from consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 15 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Jacob Shallus was chosen for the task of engrossing the Constitution and was paid $30 for the work. Shallus was Assistant Clerk to the Pennsylvania General Assembly, which met at the Pennsylvania State House, the same building used by...

People: Jacob Shallus

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 17 Sep 1787, 10:00
Redraft of Letter to Congress

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 17 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Farrand includes a final version of the letter George Washington sent to Congress. The contents of the letter were agreed on 12 September, but the letter itself states that it was written in the Convention on 17 September and then...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 17 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: These two resolutions, sent to Congress by the Convention, were taken from the Report Articles XXII and XXIII, which had been previously postponed. They were clearly written into a document to be sent to Congress alongside the...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 17 Sep 1787, 10:00
Explanation of Corrections

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 17 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Scribe Jacob Shallus made a number of corrections to his engrossed copy of the Constitution. As the Convention granted him only Sunday to write out the Constitution, there are several omissions in the text due to the difficult and...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Rules Committee, Date: 26 May 1787, 10:00
Proposed Rules and Standing Orders of the Convention

People: George Wythe Alexander Hamilton Charles Pinckney

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Rules Committee, Date: 26 May 1787, 10:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Rules Committee, Date: 26 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Rules Committee, 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...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Rules Committee, Date: 28 May 1787, 10:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Rules Committee, Date: 28 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, it is plausible to assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 30 May 1787, 10:00
Pinckney's Plan

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 30 May 1787, 10:00
Virginia Plan (Amended)

People: Edmund Randolph

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 30 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As there is no record that this proposal received any further consideration, the editors assume that it was dropped for lack of a second.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 31 May 1787, 10:00
Fourth Resolution - Remaining Clauses (Membership of First Branch of Legislature)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 31 May 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Though the majority of the resolution had been postponed, the first clause was considered part of the plan and influenced how subsequent motions progressed. For this reason, the resolution is shown here as being accepted and the...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 01 Jun 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: With Pinckney's amendment for seven year terms having been accepted, Wilson's motion was implicitly dropped from consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 01 Jun 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Journal record for the votes on Madison's and Pinckney's amendments reads: 'It was then moved, by Mr Madison, seconded by Mr Wilson, after the word instituted to add the words “with power to carry into execution the national laws,...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 01 Jun 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Madison's notes state that the Convention then went on to debate the next clause, so the editors assume that the amended clause regarding terms was accepted.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 04 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: It seems that the Committee dropped this amendment in favour of a similar one by Pinckney and Wilson.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 04 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Since the Committee now moved on to the Eighth Resolution, the editors assume that the Seventh Resolution as amended was adopted into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 05 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Once the Committee adopts Madison's proposal to strike out 'the National Legislature', this clause was taken into the working document, and the Committee moved on to consider the resolution's subsequent clauses.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 05 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Having decided to agree to the first few clauses of the Ninth Resolution and to postpone consideration of the final clause, the Committee took the former into its working document and proceeded to the consideration of the Tenth Resolution.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 05 Jun 1787, 11:00
Tenth Resolution (Admittance of States)

People: Edmund Randolph

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 07 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of a vote, suggesting that Gerry's motion was adopted without one.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 11 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Since Madison does not describe a vote, and the Journal does not mention Sherman's proposal, the editors have assumed that the amendment was dropped immediately for lack of a second.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 11 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Madison and the Journal (which omits the proposal) again suggest that Rutledge's suggestion was dropped, in spite of Butler's support.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 11 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Dickinson's proposal is not mentioned again in any of the accounts for this day. However, it does appear in later sessions, so though it may not have been considered in this instance, it does not appear to have been dropped entirely....

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 11 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Though there is no evidence of a formal vote, the editors assume that the amended Second Resolution was taken into the document, as the Committee moved on to the consideration of the Eleventh Resolution.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 11 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The Thirteenth Resolution now came before the Committee. The resolution originally proposed by Randolph was set aside and the individual clauses considered separately. The original resolution is therefore shown as being dropped, a blank...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 11 Jun 1787, 11:00
Thirteenth Resolution (Amendments)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 06 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: In a 19 May letter from Livingston to Brearley, Livingston writes, 'I suspect that by the middle of next week at farthest we shall have a full representation by the attendance of Mr. Clark and Mr. Patterson. Mr. Houston’s ill state of...

People: William Churchill Houston

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 11 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: When the first clause of the Thirteenth Resolution was adopted, it was taken into the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 12 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: As Jenifer's motion for triennial elections was adopted, Sherman's motion was likely dropped. The confused spacing seen here is a result of the Quill platform being unable to represent the amendment due to the number of subsequent...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 12 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: As Jenifer's motion for triennial elections was adopted, Rutledge's motion was likely dropped. The confused spacing seen here is a result of the Quill platform being unable to represent the amendment due to the number of subsequent...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 12 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: At this point, the sources suggest that the consideration of the remaining clauses of the Fourth Resolution as a whole was abandoned in favour of voting on selected elements clause by clause.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 12 Jun 1787, 11:00
Fourth Resolution - Third Clause (Ineligibility to Public Office)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 12 Jun 1787, 11:00
Fourth Resolution - Fourth Clause (Re-election)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 12 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Pinckney's motion to strike out the final clause was accepted, which the editors have portrayed by rejecting the clause.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 12 Jun 1787, 11:00
Fifth Resolution - Remaining Clauses (Membership of Second Branch of Legislature)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 12 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Both Madison and the Journal show that the Committee did not vote on the proposal for three year terms in the second branch. The proposal was effectively dropped, and the seven year term proposal voted on.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 12 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Lansing writes in his notes from this day: 'Question on the whole Clause, 10 Ayes—1 No' (Page 50, Lansing's Notes (Joseph Strayer, 1939)). This appears to be the same vote count that Madison and the Journal attribute to the...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 12 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Only the Journal mentions this motion and does not record a vote. There is no further record of this amendment, so the editors therefore assume that the amendment was dropped.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 12 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Madison's original notes make no mention of this proposal, which is recorded only in the Journal. There is no record of a vote, and it appears not to have passed, as debate and amendments continued. For these reasons, the editors assume...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 16 Jun 1787, 11:00
New Jersey Plan

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 16 Jun 1787, 11:00
Virginia Plan as Reported by Committee of the Whole House

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 16 Jun 1787, 11:00
New Jersey Plan (Amended)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 16 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: This motion was not mentioned again, so the editors assume it was dropped due to a lack of support or time.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: First Committee on Representation, Date: 03 Jul 1787, 11:00
Agreed Report of the First Committee on Representation

People: William Richardson Davie Luther Martin Robert Yates Gunning Bedford William Paterson Abraham Baldwin John Rutledge George Mason Benjamin Franklin Roger Sherman Elbridge Gerry

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: First Committee on Representation, Date: 03 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: In his State of Facts (1788), included in a letter from 21 January 1788 to the Vice President of the Convention of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry recollects the debate on this report in the First Committee on Representation. The relevant...

People: Elbridge Gerry

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: First Committee on Representation, Date: 03 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editor's note: The Journal entry from 5 July 1787 states that 'The honorable Mr Gerry reported from the Committee, to whom were referred the eighth resolution and part of the seventh resolution as had not already been decided on by the House, that the...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: First Committee on Representation, Date: 03 Jul 1787, 11:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: First Committee on Representation, Date: 03 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Second Committee on Representation, Date: 07 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: On 9 July 1787, the Official Journal records that 'The honorable Mr G. Morris, from the Committee to whom was referred the first clause of the first proposition reported from the grand Committee, informed the House that the Committee...

People: Gouverneur Morris

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Second Committee on Representation, Date: 07 Jul 1787, 11:00
Proposition for the Second Committee on Representation

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Second Committee on Representation, Date: 07 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: On 9 July 1787 the Official Journal records that 'The honorable Mr G. Morris, from the Committee to whom was referred the first clause of the first proposition reported from the grand Committee, informed the House that the Committee...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Second Committee on Representation, Date: 07 Jul 1787, 11:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Second Committee on Representation, Date: 07 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Third Committee on Representation, Date: 09 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: On 10 July 1787, the Official Journal records that 'The honorable Mr King from the grand Committee to whom was referred the first paragraph of the report of a Committee consisting of Mr G. Morris, Mr Gorham, Mr Randolph, Mr Rutledge,...

People: Rufus King

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Third Committee on Representation, Date: 09 Jul 1787, 11:00
Proposition for the Third Committee on Representation

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Third Committee on Representation, Date: 09 Jul 1787, 11:00
Amendment to Number of Representatives

People: Rufus King James Madison George Read Daniel Carroll William Houstoun Hugh Williamson David Brearley Robert Yates Gouverneur Morris John Rutledge Roger Sherman

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Third Committee on Representation, Date: 09 Jul 1787, 11:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Third Committee on Representation, Date: 09 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 25 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Given the weight of evidence, it appears that the Committee of Detail chose Rutledge as its Chairman. William Ewald comes to this conclusion in his paper 'The Committee of Detail' (Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 28, no. 197: 2012), for...

People: John Rutledge

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 25 Jul 1787, 11:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 25 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 27 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Though no record remains of these events, the editors have represented these amendments as accepted.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 27 Jul 1787, 11:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 27 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 29 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Throughout Document IV, there are a number of 'ticks' next to each clause, indicating that they were agreed to and, thereby, that the document was used as an aid in the composition of subsequent committee drafts. Though, these initial...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 29 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Throughout Document IV, there are a number of 'ticks' next to each clause, indicating that they were agreed to and, thereby, that the document was used as an aid in the composition of subsequent committee drafts. These changes may have...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 29 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The editors assume that the Committee agreed these changes, though there are no available records with which to confirm.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 29 Jul 1787, 11:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 29 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 30 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Throughout Document VI, there are a number of 'ticks' next to each clause, indicating that they were agreed to and, thereby, that the document was used as an aid in the composition of subsequent committee drafts.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 30 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The editors assume that the Committee accepted the changes, though there is no available record with which to confirm.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 30 Jul 1787, 11:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 30 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 01 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Based on future drafts, the editors assume that the Committee agreed these changes.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 01 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The editors assume that, having agreed to the changes, the Committee accepted the second part of the rough draft.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 01 Aug 1787, 11:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 01 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 03 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Throughout Document IX there are a number of 'ticks' next to each clause, indicating that they were agreed to and, thereby, that the document was used as an aid in the composition of subsequent committee drafts.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 03 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: McHenry records in his notes that on Saturday, 4 August 1787, the Committee of Detail finished their manuscript draft of the Constitution and that the Report was in the hands of the Philadelphia printer John Dunlap: 'August 4th....

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 03 Aug 1787, 11:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 03 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Having finished their report and agreed to refer it to the Convention, the Committee likely passed a formal motion to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 21 Aug 1787, 10:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Detail, Date: 21 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on State Debts and Militia, Date: 20 Aug 1787, 16:00
Proposals on State Militia

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on State Debts and Militia, Date: 20 Aug 1787, 16:00
[Editors' note: The Journal records on 18 August that 'it was moved and seconded to refer the last two motions to a Committee' (Page 323, Vol. 2, Official Journal (Max Farrand, 1911)). Madison clarifies that it was 'the latter motion of Col. Mason, &...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on State Debts and Militia, Date: 20 Aug 1787, 16:00
Mason's Amendment for Power to Regulate One Tenth of the Militia

People: George Mason

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on State Debts and Militia, Date: 20 Aug 1787, 16:00
[Editors' note: The Journal records on 18 August that 'it was moved and seconded to refer the last two motions to a Committee' (Page 323, Vol. 2, Official Journal (Max Farrand, 1911)). Madison clarifies that it was 'the latter motion of Col. Mason, &...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on State Debts and Militia, Date: 20 Aug 1787, 16:00
CC Pinckney's Amendment for Power to Regulate the Militia

People: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on State Debts and Militia, Date: 20 Aug 1787, 16:00
[Editors' note: The Journal records on 18 August that 'it was moved and seconded to refer the last two motions to a Committee' (Page 323, Vol. 2, Official Journal (Max Farrand, 1911)). Madison clarifies that it was 'the latter motion of Col. Mason, &...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on State Debts and Militia, Date: 20 Aug 1787, 16:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on State Debts and Militia, Date: 20 Aug 1787, 16:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 16:00
Proposals for the Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 16:00
[Editors' note: The editors assume that these changes were voted on and approved, as they were reported back to the Convention on 24 August 1787.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 16:00
Report of the Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation

People: Rufus King John Dickinson James Madison William Samuel Johnson Luther Martin Hugh Williamson George Clymer William Livingston Charles Cotesworth Pinckney John Langdon Abraham Baldwin

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 16:00
[Editors' note: The Committee referred their report to the Convention.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 16:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 16:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Commercial Discrimination, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 15:00
Propositions for the Committee on Commercial Discrimination

People: George Read Thomas Fitzsimmons William Few Daniel Carroll Hugh Williamson Nathaniel Gorham Jonathan Dayton George Mason Roger Sherman John Langdon Pierce Butler

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Commercial Discrimination, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 15:00
[Editors' note: The editors assume these amendments were accepted.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Commercial Discrimination, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 15:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Commercial Discrimination, Date: 27 Aug 1787, 15:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Interstate Comity and Bankruptcy, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 15:00
[Editors' note: The Journal records Rutledge as delivering the Committee Report on 1 September 1787. As this role was usually undertaken by the chairman, the editors assume he was elected to this position by the Committee.]

People: John Rutledge

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Interstate Comity and Bankruptcy, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 15:00
Propositions for the Committee on Interstate Comity and Bankruptcy

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Interstate Comity and Bankruptcy, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 15:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Interstate Comity and Bankruptcy, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 15:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Postponed Matters, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 15:00
First Report of the Committee on Postponed Matters

People: John Dickinson Rufus King James Madison Daniel Carroll Hugh Williamson David Brearley Gouverneur Morris Nicholas Gilman Abraham Baldwin Roger Sherman Pierce Butler

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Postponed Matters, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 15:00
Article VI: Section 9

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Postponed Matters, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 15:00
[Editors' note: As this version of the section was reported to the Convention, it was evidently agreed, though no record of a vote appears to be extant.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Postponed Matters, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 15:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Postponed Matters, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 15:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Postponed Matters, Date: 31 Aug 1787, 15:00
Mason's Propositions for the Committee on Postponed Matters

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Postponed Matters, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 15:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Postponed Matters, Date: 03 Sep 1787, 15:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Postponed Matters, Date: 04 Sep 1787, 15:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Postponed Matters, Date: 04 Sep 1787, 15:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Style and Arrangement, Date: 08 Sep 1787, 18:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Style and Arrangement, Date: 08 Sep 1787, 18:00
[Editors' note: Johnson's dairy records that on 8 September he was 'in Conventn. Dind. Mifflins. Eveng. Comee' (Vol. 3, Appendix A (Max Farrand, 1911)). It is therefore likely that the committee met that evening to discuss how to proceed, examine the...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Style and Arrangement, Date: 10 Sep 1787, 15:00
Constitution Proposed by the Committee of Detail (Amended)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Style and Arrangement, Date: 10 Sep 1787, 15:00
Farrand's Proceedings of Convention Referred to the Committee of Style and Arrangement

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Style and Arrangement, Date: 10 Sep 1787, 15:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Style and Arrangement, Date: 10 Sep 1787, 15:00
[Editors' note: There are no records of the deliberations and drafting process of the Committee of Style and Arrangement. As a result, the meeting times are based on the records of the Convention detailing the formation of the Committee and its...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Style and Arrangement, Date: 11 Sep 1787, 10:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Style and Arrangement, Date: 11 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: There are no records of the deliberations and drafting processes of the Committee of Style and Arrangement. As a result, the meeting times are based on the records of the Convention detailing the formation of the Committee and its...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Style and Arrangement, Date: 12 Sep 1787, 15:00
Committee Amendments to Articles XXII and XXIII

People: Rufus King William Samuel Johnson James Madison Alexander Hamilton Gouverneur Morris

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Style and Arrangement, Date: 12 Sep 1787, 15:00
[Editors' note: These changes were evidently accepted, as the Journal records the amended propositions as being proposed to the Convention.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Style and Arrangement, Date: 12 Sep 1787, 15:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of Style and Arrangement, Date: 12 Sep 1787, 15:00
[Editors' note: There are no records of the deliberations and drafting processes of the Committee of Style and Arrangement. As a result, the meeting times are based on the records of the Convention detailing the formation of the Committee and its...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 02 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The motion to create a committee was then divided into two questions, one on appointing a committee, and the other on the committee consisting of a member from each state. These questions were decided upon separately. Because of this...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 02 Jun 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: There is no record of any discussion or procedure surrounding the credentials, suggesting that they were accepted without objection.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 07 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: It's clear this motion was agreed to as the committee proceed to consider the mode of electing the second branch.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 08 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: The motion to reconsider the Sixth Resolution allowed the resolution to be amended again, after being adopted previously. Therefore, the Sixth Resolution must be adopted again, in order to appear in the amended Virginia Plan.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 26 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Once the Convention decided on the final remaining resolution from the Committee of the Whole House, the original report was dropped from consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 30 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: As the convention proceeds to debate Ellsworth's amendment it can be assumed that this motion passed in the affirmative, despite no vote being recorded.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 10 Jul 1787, 11:00
Reconsider the Second Proposition of the Report of the Second Committee on Representation

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 10 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Despite adopting the second proposition of the Report, the Convention proceeded to debate and amend the proposition. In order to replicate this process the editors have introduced a motion to reconsider the second proposition.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 12 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: After adopting the amended census clause, the Convention took the proposal into the propositions of the Second Committee on Representation.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 13 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Read's amendment on representation is the last point at which the Convention amends the second proposition of the Report of the Second Committee on Representation individually from the rest of the report. In order for the second...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 14 Jul 1787, 11:00
Report of the Second Committee on Representation Accepted

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 25 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' notes: After the Convention finished amending Article VIII, the article was implicitly adopted back into the document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Slave Trade and Navigation, Date: 23 Aug 1787, 16:00
[Editors' note: The Committee referred their instructions to the Convention.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 29 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Once its instructions had been debated, the original document was dropped from the Convention's consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 Aug 1787, 10:00
Motion to Reconsider the Rules and Standing Orders of the Convention

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The forthcoming motion to rescind the order of the House respecting the hours of meeting and adjournment is effectively an amendment to strike out Rutledge's order to extend sessions of the Convention from the Rules and Standing Orders...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 22 Aug 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: At this point in the session the Convention ceased considering changes to the rules of the Convention, so the editors have readopted the Rules and Standing Orders of the Convention document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 13 Aug 1787, 11:00
Motion to Reconsider Article V: Section 3 (Qualification of Senators)

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 13 Aug 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Madison notes that after Wilson's amendment to article V section 3 is rejected, there is a vote to agree to the original section. As article V section 3 had already been adopted on 9 August 1797, the editors have assumed there was an...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 10 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Journal states that Madison's amendment was an amendment to Sherman's original motion. As Madison's proposal had been accepted, this event shows Sherman's original amendment as being accepted, though none of the sources provides a...

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 10 Sep 1787, 10:00
Hamilton's Second Amendment on Ratification of the Constitution

People: Alexander Hamilton

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 10 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Article 19 is implicitly re-adopted when Madison's amendment is adopted and the Convention proceeds to consider Articles 21 and 22.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 08 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: As the Convention had finished reconsidering and amending the fifth clause of the Seventh Proposition, the amendments which were not taken forward were effectively dropped.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 08 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: Sherman's amendment is never discussed further or voted upon, so the editors have dropped it from consideration.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 05 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Having finished amending the 9th resolution, it is implicitly adopted.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 10 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: The Convention never returns to Randolph's amendment so Article 22 is adopted back into the document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 12 Sep 1787, 10:00
[Editors' note: After Williamson's amendment to Article VI: Section 13 was adopted, the section was no longer under reconsideration, so the editors have adopted it back into the document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Sumptuary Legislation, Date: 13 Sep 1787, 15:00
Motion to Rise

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee on Sumptuary Legislation, Date: 13 Sep 1787, 15:00
[Editors' note: Standard practice at the Convention was for committees to end a session by voting to rise. Though there is no record of such a motion or vote, the editors assume that the Committee followed this practice.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: Committee of the Whole House, Date: 12 Jun 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: It is likely that there was not a separate vote on the whole clause and that, with the adoption of the Ineligibility Clause, the remaining clauses as amended were taken in to the working document.]

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Jul 1787, 11:00
Question on the Outcome of the Vote

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition), Committee: The Convention, Date: 06 Jul 1787, 11:00
[Editors' note: Lansing's notes show that following the vote on the second clause of the First Proposition, 'a dispute arose whether it was carried in Affirmative – Some Debate on Subject' (Page 105, Lansing's Notes (Joseph Strayer, 1939)). Madison...

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