the supreme tribunal be appointed by the second branch (Senate) of the national legislature — Agreed to.
Motion to amend that part of the sixth proposition which empowers each branch to originate acts by restraining the second (senatorial) branch from originating money bills — Disagreed to.
State of the resolutions (nineteen in number) as adopted by the committee of the whole, and founded on Mr. Randolph's fifteen propositions.
Mr. Patterson's first proposition — The Articles of Confederation to be revised and enlarged, resumed — Motion to amend so as to provide for an adequate government of the United States — Postponed.
Mr. Hamilton submits eleven propositions as amendments which he should probably offer to those of Mr. Randolph — Read, but not moved.
Motion to amend Mr. Patterson's first proposition so as to provide for an adequate government of the United States, resumed — Disagreed to — Motion to postpone Mr. Patterson's first proposition — Agreed to.
Motion for the committee of the whole to rise and report the nineteen resolutions founded on Mr. Randolph's propositions as amended and adopted in committee — Agreed to.
First resolution, establishing a national government, to consist of a legislative, executive, and judiciary, considered by the Convention.
First resolution, establishing a national government, resumed — Motion to amend so as to establish a government of the United States — Agreed to.
Second resolution, that the national legislature consist of two branches — Motion to amend by striking out "national" — Agreed to — Motion to amend by declaring that legislation be vested in the United States in Congress — Disagreed to.
Second resolution, that the legislature consist of two branches, resumed — Agreed to.
Third resolution, fixing election, term, qualifications, &c., of the first branch of the legislature — Motion to amend so as to provide that the election of the first branch be as the state legislatures direct — Disagreed to — Motion to amend so as to provide that the term of the first branch
be for two years — Agreed to.
Third resolution, fixing election, term, qualifications, &,c., of the first branch, resumed — Motion to amend so as to provide that the compensation of members of the first branch shall be fixed by the national legislature — Disagreed to — Motion to amend, by striking out its payment from the national treasury — Disagreed to — Motion to amend so as to provide that the compensation shall be fixed — Agreed to — Motion to amend so as to provide that the members of the first branch shall be twenty-five years of age — Agreed to — Motion to amend by striking out the ineligibility of members of the first branch — Disagreed to.
Third resolution, for fixing the qualifications, &c., of the first branch, resumed — Motion to amend by striking out the ineligibility of the members to state offices — Agreed to — Motion to amend by confining their ineligibility to such national offices as had been established, or their emoluments increased, while they were members — Disagreed to — Motion to confine their ineligibility to national offices, during one year after their term of service is expired — Agreed to.
Fourth resolution, fixing election, term, qualifications, &c., of the second branch of the legislature — Motions to amend the clause relating to their term of office by making it six or five years — Disagreed to.
Fourth resolution, relative to the term of the second branch of the legislature, resumed — Motion to amend so as to make their term nine years, one third to go out every third year — Disagreed to — To make their term six years, one third to go out every second year — Agreed to — Motion to amend by striking out their compensation — Disagreed to — Motion to amend so as to provide that their compensation be paid by the states — Disagreed to — Motion to provide that their compensation be paid out of the national treasury — Disagreed to — Motion to amend by striking out the ineligibility of the members to state offices — Agreed to — Motion to confine their ineligibility to national offices during one year after their term of service is expired.
