July 9. Suggests free inhabitants as basis of representation in one house, and all inhabitants as basis in the other house. July 10. Moves increase of Representatives. July 11. Favors representation based on population. July 14. Urges proportional representation as necessary to protect the smaller States. July 17. Advocates national power of negative over State laws. Thinks the branches of government should be kept separate. Thinks monarchy likely to follow instability. Thinks there should be provision for interregnum between adoption and operation of constitution. Moves national guarantee of States against domestic violence. July 18. Seconds motion forbidding a State to form any but a republican government. JOURNAL OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1787. Monday May 14^{th} 1787 was the day fixed for the meeting of the deputies in Convention for revising the federal System of Government. On that day a small number only had assembled. Seven States were not convened till, Friday 25 of May, when the following members appeared to wit: From _Massachusetts_, Rufus King. _N. York_, Robert Yates,[8] Alex^r Hamilton. _N. Jersey_, David Brearly, William Churchill Houston, William Patterson. _Pennsylvania_, Robert Morris, Thomas Fitzsimons, James Wilson, Governeur Morris. _Delaware_, George Read, Richard Basset,[9] Jacob Broome. _Virginia_, George Washington, Edmund Randolph, John Blair,[10] James Madison, George Mason, George Wythe, James McClurg. _N. Carolina_, Alexander Martin, William Richardson Davie, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. _S. Carolina_, John Rutlidge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler. _Georgia_, William Few.[11] [8] William Pierce, delegate from Georgia, made an estimate of each member of the convention, the only contemporary estimate thus far brought to light. Yates did not speak in the Convention. "M^r Yates is said to be an able Judge. He is a Man of great legal abilities, but not distinguished as an Orator. Some of his Enemies say he is an anti-federal Man, but I discovered no such disposition in him. He is about 45 years old, and enjoys a great share of health."--Pierce's Notes, _Am. Hist. Rev._, iii., 327. For more about Pierce's Notes, see p. 45, n. [9] "M^r Bassett is a religious enthusiast, lately turned Methodist, and serves his Country because it is the will of the people that he should do so. He is a Man of plain sense, and has modesty enough to hold his Tongue. He is Gentlemanly Man and is in high estimation among the Methodists. Mr. Bassett is about 36 years old."--Pierce's Notes, _Id._, iii., 330. He did not speak in the Convention.