[107] Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, _ay_, 6; New Jersey, Delaware, _no_, 2; Massachusetts, South Carolina, divided. [108] The only opposition was from Delaware, the vote of which was divided. [109] See the note at the end of this chapter. [110] Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina (Mr. Spaight, _no_), _ay_, 5; Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, _no_, 4; Massachusetts divided (Mr. Gerry, Mr. Strong, _ay_, Mr. King, Mr. Gorham, _no_). The delegates of New York were all absent; Messrs. Yates and Lansing left the Convention on the 5th of July, after the principle of popular representation had been adopted. Colonel Hamilton was absent on private business. If the two former had been present, the vote of the State would doubtless have been given in favor of the report, on account of the basis which it gave to the Senate. [111] Elliot, V. 319. [112] Mr. Madison, who was to the last a strenuous opponent of the equality of votes in the Senate, candidly and truly stated its merits in the 62d number of the Federalist, as they had been disclosed to him by subsequent reflection. CHAPTER VIII. POWERS OF LEGISLATION.--CONSTITUTION AND CHOICE OF THE EXECUTIVE.--CONSTITUTION OF THE JUDICIARY.--ADMISSION OF NEW STATES.--COMPLETION OF THE ENGAGEMENTS OF CONGRESS.--GUARANTY OF REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTIONS.--OATH TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION.--RATIFICATION.--NUMBER OF SENATORS.--QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE.--SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. Of the remaining subjects comprehended in the report of the committee of the whole, it will only be necessary here to make a brief statement of the action of the Convention, before we arrive at the stage at which the principles agreed upon were sent to a committee of detail to be cast into the forms of a Constitution. Recurring to the sixth resolution in the report of the committee of the whole, an addition was made to its provisions, by inserting a power to legislate in all cases for the general interests of the Union; and for the clause giving the legislature power to negative certain laws of the States, the principle was substituted of making the legislative acts and treaties of the United States the supreme law of the land, and binding upon the judiciaries of the several States.