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Day 60: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Tuesday August 14, 1787 IN CONVENTION Article VI. Sect. 9. taken up. Mr. PINKENEY argued that the making the members ineligible to...
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Day 59: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Tuesday August 13, 1787 IN CONVENTION Art. IV. Sect. 2 reconsidered- Mr. WILSON & Mr. RANDOLPH moved to strike out "7 years" and insert...
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Day 58: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Tuesday August 11, 1787 IN CONVENTION Mr. MADISON & Mr. RUTLIDGE moved "that each House shall keep a journal of its proceeding, & shall...
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Day 57: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Tuesday August 10, 1787 IN CONVENTION Art. VI. Sect. 2. taken up. Mr. PINKNEY. The Committee as he had conceived were instructed to...
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Day 56: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Tuesday August 9, 1787 IN CONVENTION Art: IV. Sect. 6. Mr. RANDOLPH expressed his dissatisfaction at the disagreement yesterday to Sect....
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Day 55: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Tuesday August 8, 1787 IN CONVENTION Art: IV. Sect. I. -Mr. MERCER expressed his dislike of the whole plan, and his opinion that it never...
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Day 54: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Tuesday August 7, 1787 IN CONVENTION The Report of the Committee of detail being taken up, Mr. PINKNEY moved that it be referred to a...
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Day 53: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Tuesday August 6, 1787 IN CONVENTION Mr. John Francis Mercer from Maryland took his seat. Mr. RUTLIDGE delivered in the Report of the...
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Day 52: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Tuesday July 26, 1787 IN CONVENTION Col. MASON. In every Stage of the Question relative to the Executive, the difficulty of the subject...
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Day 51: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Tuesday July 25, 1787 IN CONVENTION Clause relating to the Executive again under consideration. Mr. ELSEWORTH moved "that the Executive...
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Day 50: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Tuesday July 24, 1787 IN CONVENTION The appointment of the Executive by Electors reconsidered. Mr. HOUSTON moved that he be appointed by...
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Day 49: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Monday July 23, 1787 IN CONVENTION Mr. John Langdon & Mr. Nicholas Gilman from N. Hampshire, took their seats. Resoln.: 17. that...
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Day 48: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Saturday July 21, 1787 IN CONVENTION Mr. WILLIAMSON moved that the Electors of the Executive should be paid out of the National Treasury...
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Day 47: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Friday July 20, 1787 IN CONVENTION The postponed Ratio of Electors for appointing the Executive; to wit 1 for each State whose...
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Day 46: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Thursday July 19, 1787 IN CONVENTION On reconsideration of the vote rendering the Executive re-eligible a 2d. time, Mr. MARTIN moved to...
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Day 45: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Wednesday July 18, 1787 IN CONVENTION On motion of Mr. L. Martin to fix tomorrow for reconsidering the vote concerning "eligibility of...
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Day 44: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Tuesday July 17, 1787 IN CONVENTION Mr. GOVERNR. MORRIS. moved to reconsider the whole Resolution agreed to yesterday concerning the...
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Day 43: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Monday July 16, 1787 IN CONVENTION On the question for agreeing to the whole Report as amended & including the equality of votes in the...
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Day 42: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Saturday July 14, 1787 IN CONVENTION Mr. L. MARTIN called for the question on the whole report, including the parts relating to the...
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Day 41: Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Convention
Friday July 13, 1787 IN CONVENTION It being moved to postpone the clause in the Report of the Committee of Eleven as to the originating...
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