This Constitution shall be submitted to the consideration of Conventions in the several States, the members whereof shall be chosen by the people of such States respectively under the direction of their respective Legislatures. Each Convention which shall ratify the same, shall appoint the first representatives and Senators from such State according to the rule prescribed in the ---- § of the ---- article. The representatives so appointed shall continue in office for one year only. Each Convention so ratifying shall give notice thereof to the Congress of the United States, transmitting at the same time a list of the Representatives and Senators chosen. When the Constitution shall have been duly ratified, Congress shall give notice of a day and place for the meeting of the Senators and Representatives from the several States; and when these or a majority of them shall have assembled according to such notice, they shall by joint ballot, by plurality of votes, elect a President of the United States; and the Constitution thus organized shall be carried into effect.--_Mad. MSS._ "Col: Hamilton did not propose in the Convention any plan of a Constitution. He had sketched an outline which he read as part of a speech; observing that he did not mean it as a proposition, but only to give a more correct view of his ideas. "Mr. Patterson regularly proposed a plan which was discussed & voted on."--Madison to John Quincy Adams, Montpellier, Nov. 2, 1818, _Dept. of State MSS._, Miscellaneous Letters. Committee rose & the House Adjourned. TUESDAY JUNE 19^{TH} IN COMMITTEE OF WHOLE ON THE PROPOSITIONS OF M^R PATTERSON,--[90] [90] This was the last session of the Convention in Committee of the Whole. The substitute offered yesterday by M^r Dickenson being rejected by a vote now taken on it; Con. N. Y. N. J. Del. ay. Mass. P^a V. N. C. S. C. Geo. no. Mary^d divided M^r Patterson's plan was again at large before the Committee.