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JOURNAL

OF THE

FEDERAL CONVENTION

KEPT BY

JAMES MADISON

REPRINTED FROM THE EDITION OF 1840, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS. A COMPLETE

INDEX SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO THIS EDITION IS ADDED

EDITED BY

E. H. SCOTT

VOLUME II

CHICAGO

ALBERT, SCOTT & CO.

1893

COPYRIGHT, 1893,

BY ALBERT, SCOTT & CO.

The Lakeside Press

R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS CO., CHICAGO

FRIDAY, JULY 20TH.

In Convention,―The proposed ratio of Electors for appointing the Executive, to wit: one for each State whose inhabitants do not exceed two hundred thousand, &c., being taken up,

Mr. MADISON observed that this would make, in time, all or nearly all the States equal, since there were few that I would not in time contain the number of inhabitants entitling them to three Electors; that this ratio ought either to be made temporary, or so varied as that it would adjust itself to the growing population of the States.

Mr. GERRY moved that in the first instance the Electors should be allotted to the States in the following ratio: to New Hampshire, one; Massachusetts, three; Rhode Island, one; Connecticut two; New York, two; New Jersey, two; Pennsylvania, three; Delaware, one; Maryland, two; Virginia, three; North Carolina, two; South Carolina, two; Georgia, one.

On the question to postpone in order to take up this motion of Mr. GERRY, it passed in the affirmative,—Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, aye-6; Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, no — 4.

Mr. ELLSWORTH moved that two Electors be allotted to New Hampshire. Some rule ought to be pursued; and New Hampshire has more than a hundred thousand inhabitants. He thought it would be proper also to allot two to Georgia.

Mr. BROOM and Mr. MARTIN moved to postpone Mr. GERRY'S allotment of Electors, leaving a fit ratio to be reported by the Committee to be appointed for detailing the Resolutions.

On this motion, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, aye, -3; Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, no-7.

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