at present it shall be in a prescribed ratio-Agreed to-Motion to Ninth resolution, relative to National Executive, resumed-Motion to provide for the payment of the Electors of the Executive out of the National Treasury--Agreed to. Tenth resolution, relative to the negative of the Executive on the Legislature, resumed-Motion to amend by providing that the Eleventh resolution, relative to Judiciary, resumed-Motion to provide that the Judges be nominated by the Executive, and ap- pointed, unless two thirds of the second branch disagree thereto Seventeenth resolution, providing for future amendments-Agreed to. Eighteenth resolution, requiring the oath of State officers to sup- port the Constitution-Agreed to. Nineteenth resolution, requiring the ratification of the Constitu The eighth resolution, relative to the suffrage in the second Ninth resolution, relative to the National Executive, resumed-Mo- tion to amend so as to provide that he be appointed by the National Legislature, and not by Electors chosen by the State Legislatures, Agreed to-Motion to amend so as to provide that the Executive be chosen by Electors taken by lot from the National Legislature The resolutions as amended and adopted, together with the propositions submitted by Mr. Patterson, and the plan proposed by Mr. C. Pinckney, referred to a Committee of Detail, to report a Motion to appoint the Executive by Electors appointed by State Legislatures, where the actual Executive is re-eligible-Disagreed to-Motion to appoint the Executive by the Governors of States and their Councils-Not passed-Motion that no person be eligible to the Executive for more than six years in twelve-Disagreed to. -Motion to authorize copies to be taken of the resolutions as The ninth resolution, relative to the National Executive, resumed -Motion that the Executive be for seven years, and not re-eligible The third and fourth resolutions, relative to the qualifications of the members of the Legislature, resumed-Motion to require property and citizenship-Agreed to-Motion to exclude person's indebted to the United States-Disagreed to. Statement of the resolutions as amended agreed to, and referred Plan of a Federal Constitution, offered by Mr. Charles Pinckney on the 29th May, referred to the Committee of Detail. Propositions offered by Mr. Patterson on the 15th June, referred DEBATES IN THE CONGRESS OF THE CONFEDERATION, FROM FEBRUARY 19TH TILL APRIL 25TH, 1787. IN CONGRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1787.* Mr. PINCKNEY, in support of his motion entered on the Journal, for stopping the enlistment of troops, argued that he had reason to suppose the insurrection in Massachusetts, the real, though not ostensible object of this measure, to be already crushed; that the requisition of five hundred thousand dollars for supporting the troops had been complied with by one State only, viz. Virginia, and that but in part; that it would be absurd to proceed in the raising of men who could neither be paid, clothed nor fed, and that such a folly was the more to be shunned, as the consequences could not be foreseen, of embodying and arming men under circumstances which would be more likely to render them the terror than the support of the Government. We had, he observed, been so lucky in one instance-meaning the disbanding of the army on the peace-as to get rid of an armed force without satisfying their just claims; but that it would not be prudent to hazard the repetition of the experiment. Mr. KING made a moving appeal to the feelings of * From 1783 till this period Mr. Madison was not a member. |