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the United States; to all cases of admiralty and maritimé jurisdiction. In cases of impeachment affecting ambassadörs, and other publick ministers, this jurisdic tion shall be original; and in all the other cases ap> pellate.

All criminal offences (except in cases of impeachment) shall be tried in the state where they shall be committed. The trials shall be open and publick, and be by jury.

ARTICLE X.

Immediately after the first census of the people of the United States, the house of delegates shall appor. tion the senate by electing for each state, out of the citizens resident therein, one senator for every members such state shall have in the house of delegates. Each state shall be entitled to have at least one member in the senate.

ARTICLE X1.

No state shall grant letters of marque and reprisal, or enter into treaty, or alliance, or confederation; nor grant any title of nobility; nor, without the consent of the legislature of the United States, lay any impost on imports; nor keep troops or ships of war in time of peace; nor enter into compacts with other states or foreign powers, or emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold, silver, or copper, a tender in payment of debts; nor engage in war, except for self defence when actually invaded, or the danger of invasion is so great as not to admit of a delay until the government of the United States can be informed thereof. And to render these prohibitions effectual, the legislature of

the United States shall have the power to revise the laws of the several states that may be supposed to infringe the powers exclusively delegated by this constitution to Congress, and to negative and annul such as do.

ARTICLE XII.

The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states. Any person, charged with crimes in any state, fleeing from justice to another, shall, on demand of the executive of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the state having jurisdiction of the offence.

ARTICLE XIII.

Full faith shall be given, in each state, to the acts of the legislature and to the records and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every state.

ARTICLE XIV.

The legislature shall have power to admit new states into the union on the same terms with the original states; provided two thirds of the members present in both houses agree.

ARTICLE XV.

On the application of the legislature of a state, the United States shall protect it against domestick insurrection.

ARTICLE XVI.

If two thirds of the legislatures of the states apply

for the same, the legislature of the United States shall call a convention for the purpose of amending the constitution: Or, should Congress, with the consent of two thirds of each house, propose to the states amendments to the same, the agreement of two thirds of the legis latures of the states shall be sufficient to make the said amendments parts of the constitution.

. The ratification of the

this constitution.

conventions of

states shall be sufficient for organizing

Ordered, That the said draft be referred to the committee of the whole house appointed to consider of the state of the American union.

And then the house adjourned till to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1787.

The honourable Roger Sherman, Esq. a deputy of the state of Connecticut, attended and took his seat. The order of the day being read,

The house resolved itself into a committee of the whole house to consider of the state of the American union.

Mr. President left the chair.

IN A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE.

Mr. Gorham, chosen by ballot, took the chair of the committee.

The propositions offered yesterday to the consideration of the house, by Mr. Randolph, were read; and on motion of Mr. Randolph, seconded by Mr. G, Mor

ris, "That the consideration of the first resolution con"tained in the said propositions be postponed,"

It passed in the affirmative.

It was then moved by Mr. Randolph, and seconded by Mr. G. Morris, to substitute the following resolution in the place of the first resolution:

Resolved, That an union of the states, merely federal, will not accomplish the objects proposed by the articles of confederation, namely,

"Common defence, security of liberty, and general "welfare."

It was moved by Mr. Butler, seconded by Mr. Randolph, to postpone the consideration of the said resolution, in order to take up the following resolution, submitted by Mr. Randolph, namely,

Resolved, That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judi ciary, and executive.

It was moved by Mr. Read, seconded by Mr. C. C. Pinckney, to postpone the consideration of the last resolution, in order to take up the following:

Resolved, That in order to carry into execution the design of the states, in forming this convention, and to accomplish the objects proposed by the confederation, "a more effective government consisting of a legisla❝tive, judiciary, and executive, ought to be establish"ed."

On the question to postpone, in order to take up the last resolution, the question was lost.

YEAS-Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, South

Carolina

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NAYS New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina

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On motion to agree to the said resolution moved by Mr. Butler, it passed in the affirmative; and the resolution as agreed to, is as follows:

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee that a national government ought to be established consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive.

YEAS-Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina

NAY-Connecticut

DIVIDED-New York

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The following resolution was then moved by Mr. Randolph :

Resolved, That the rights of suffrage in the national legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different

cases.

It was moved by Mr. Hamilton, seconded by Mr. Spaight, that the resolution be altered so as to read,

Resolved, That the rights of suffrage in the national legislature ought to be proportioned to the number of free inhabitants.

It was moved and seconded, that the resolution be postponed ;

And on the question to postpone,

It passed in the affirmative.

The following resolution was moved by Mr. Randolph, seconded by Mr. Madison:

Resolved, That the rights of suffrage in the national legislature ought to be proportioned.

It was moved and seconded to add the words, "and "not according to the present system."

On the question to agree to the amendment,

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