It was moved and seconded to insert the following clause after the second section of the seventh article: "The legislature shall pass no bill of attainder, nor any ex post facto laws?? Which passed in the affirmative. 17 YEAS New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia NAYS-Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania 3 DIVIDED-North Carolina 1 It was moved and seconded to take up the report of the committee of five. It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the report, in order that the members may furnish themselves with copies of the report Which passed in the affirmative. YEAS-Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia 6 NAYS-New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carolina 5 It was moved and seconded to take up the report of the committee of eleven entered on the journal of the 21st instant Which passed in the affirmative. It was moved by Mr. Morris, and seconded, to amend the first clause of the report to read as follows: "The legislature shall fulfil the engagements and discharge the debts of the United States." It was moved and seconded to alter the amendment by striking out the words "discharge the debts," and insert the words "liquidate the claims" Which passed in the negative. On the question to agree to the clause as amended, namely, "The legislature shall fulfil the engagements and "discharge the debts of the United States❞— It passed unanimously in the affirmative. It was moved and seconded to strike the following words out of the second clause of the report: "And the authority of training the militia according "to the discipline prescribed by the United States." Before the question was taken on the last motion, The house adjourned. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1787. It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the second clause of the report of the committee of eleven, in order to take up the following: "To establish a uniform and general system of dis"cipline for the militia of these states, and to make "laws for organizing, arming, disciplining, and govern"ing such part of them as may be employed in the "service of the United States, reserving to the states, "respectively, the appointment of the officers, and all "authority over the militia, not herein given to the "general government." On the question to postpone, It passed in the negative. YEAS-New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia 3 NAYS-New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina 8 It was moved by Mr. Ellsworth, and seconded, to postpone the consideration of the second clause of the report of the committee of eleven, in order to take up the following: To establish a uniformity of arms, exercise, and organization for the militia, and to provide for the 66 government of them when called into the service of "the United States." On the question to postpone, It passed in the negative. 1 NAYS-New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia 10 It was moved and seconded to recommit the second clause of the report of the committee of elevenWhich passed in the negative. On the question to agree to the first part of the second clause of the report, namely, "To make laws for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of "them as may be employed in the service of the Unit"ed States" It passed in the affirmative. YEAS-New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia NAYS-Connecticut, Maryland 9 12 It was moved and seconded to amend the next part of the second clause of the report to read "reserving "to the states, respectively, the appointment of the "officers under the rank of general officers." It passed in the negative. YEAS-New Hampshire, South Carolina 2 NAYS-Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia 9 On the question to agree to the following part of the second clause of the report, namely, "Reserving to the states respectively the appoint"ment of the officers" It passed in the affirmative.. On the question to agree to the following part of the second clause of the report, namely, "And the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by the United States". It passed in the affirmative. YEAS-New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina 7 NAYS-Delaware, Virginia,South Carolina,Georgia 4 It was moved and seconded to agree to the seventh section of the seventh article, as reported Which passed unanimously in the affirmative. It was moved and seconded to insert the following clause after the seventh section of the seventh article: "No person holding any office of profit or trust "under the United States, shall, without the consent of "the legislature, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state❞— Which passed in the affirmative... It was moved and seconded to amend the eighth article to read as follows: "This constitution and the laws of the United States "made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made "under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the several states and of their citi"zens and inhabitants; and the judges in the several states shall be bound thereby in their decisions; any “thing in the constitutions or laws of the several states "to the contrary, notwithstanding". "Which passed in the affirmative.: On the question to agree to the eighth article asamended, It passed in the affirmative. It was moved and seconded to strike the following words out of the eighteenth clause of the first section, seventh article: "enforce treaties" Which passed in the affirmative. It was moved and seconded to alter the first part of the eighteenth clause of the first section, seventh article, to read, "To provide for calling forth the militia to execute "the laws of the union, suppress insurrections, and *repel invasions" Which passed in the affirmative. On the question to agree to the eighteenth clause of the first section, seventh article, as amended, It passed in the affirmative. It was moved and seconded to agree to the following proposition, as an additional power to be vested in the legislature of the United States : "To negative all laws passed by the several states "interfering, in the opinion of the legislature, with the "general interests and harmony of the union; provid"ed that two thirds of the members of each house assent to the same." It was moved and seconded to commit the proposi tion Which passed in the negative.. |