[10] The object was to lessen the eagerness on one side, & the opposition on the other, to the share of representation claimed by the S. States on account of the Negroes.--Madison's Note. On a ballot for a Committee to report a Constitution conformable to the Resolutions passed by the Convention, the members chosen were M^r Rutlidge, M^r Randolph, M^r Ghorum, M^r Elseworth, M^r Wilson-- On motion to discharge the Com^e of the whole from the propositions submitted to the Convention by M^r C. Pinkney as the basis of a constitution, and to refer them to the Committee of detail just appointed, it was ag^d to nem: con. A like motion was then made & agreed to nem: con: with respect to the propositions of M^r Patterson. Adjourned. WEDNESDAY JULY 25. IN CONVENTION Clause relating to the Executive being again under consideration[11] [11] "Permit me to hint, whether it would not be wise & seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the command in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural _born_ citizen."--John Jay to Washington, July 25, 1787 (Wash. MSS.). M^r Elseworth moved "that the Executive be appointed by the Legislature," except when the magistrate last chosen shall have continued in office the whole term for which he was chosen, & be reeligible, in which case the choice shall be by Electors appointed by the Legislatures of the States for that purpose. By this means a deserving magistrate may be reelected without making him dependent on the Legislature. M^r Gerry repeated his remark that an election at all by the Nat^l Legislature was radically and incurably wrong; and moved that the Executive be appointed by the Governours & Presidents of the States, with advice of their Councils, and where there are no Councils by Electors chosen by the Legislatures. The executives to vote in the following proportions: viz--