The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 2Madison, James
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The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 2
Madison, James
Constitutional law -- United States; Constitutions -- United States; United States. Constitution
"The committee report, that in their opinion the following
additions should be made to the report now before the
convention, namely,
"At the end of the first clause of the first section of the
seventh article add, 'for payment of the debts and necessary
expenses of the United States; provided that no law for raising
any branch of revenue, except what may be specially appropriated
for the payment of interest on debts or loans, shall continue in
force for more than ---- years.'
"At the end of the second clause, second section, seventh
article, add, 'and with Indians, within the limits of any state,
not subject to the laws thereof.'
"At the end of the sixteenth clause of the second section,
seventh article, add, 'and to provide, as may become necessary,
from time to time, for the well managing and securing the common
property and general interests and welfare of the United States
in such manner as shall not interfere with the governments of
individual states, in matters which respect only their internal
police, or for which their individual authority may be
competent.'
"At the end of the first section, tenth article, add, 'he shall
be of the age of thirty-five years, and a citizen of the United
States, and shall have been an inhabitant thereof for twenty-one
years.'
"After the second section of the tenth article, insert the
following as a third section:
"'The President of the United States shall have a privy
council, which shall consist of the president of the
senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the
chief justice of the supreme court, and the principal
officer in the respective departments of foreign
affairs, domestic affairs, war, marine, and finance, as
such departments of office shall from time to time be
established, whose duty it shall be to advise him in
matters respecting the execution of his office, which he
shall think proper to lay before them: but their advice
shall not conclude him, nor affect his responsibility
for the measures which he shall adopt.'
"At the end of the second section of the eleventh article, add,
'the judges of the supreme court shall be triable by the senate,
on impeachment by the house of representatives.'
"Between the fourth and fifth lines of the third section of the
eleventh article, after the word 'controversies,' insert,
'between the United States and an individual state, or the
United States and an individual person.'"
A motion to rescind the order of the House respecting the hours of
meeting & adjourning, was negatived:
Mass: P^a Del. Mar^d ay. N. H. Con: N. J. V^a N. C. S. C.
Geo. no.
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