We are now aware that the Convention was within two weeks of its end and no one had mentioned, in what is now the Fifth Article, the state governments or legislatures as possible makers of _federal_ Articles, if and when _such_ Articles were to be made in the future. It was not until September 10, Monday of the last Convention week, that Article XIX again came up for action, when Gerry of Massachusetts moved to reconsider it. His purpose, as he himself stated it, was to object because it made it possible that, if the people in two-thirds of the states called a convention, a majority of the American people assembled in that convention “can bind the Union with innovations that may subordinate the state constitutions altogether.” Hamilton stated that he could see “no greater evil, in subjecting the people in America to the major voice than the people of any particular state.” He went on to say that he did think the Article should be changed so as to provide a more desirable “mode for _introducing_ amendments,” namely, drafting and proposing them to those who could make them. In this respect he said: “The mode proposed was not adequate. The state legislatures will not apply for alterations, but with a view to increase their own powers. The national legislature will be the first to perceive, and will be most sensible to, the necessity of amendments; and ought also to be empowered, whenever two-thirds of each branch should concur, to call a convention. There could be no danger in giving this power, as the _people_ would finally _decide_ in the case.” (5 _Ell. Deb._ 531.)