The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 1

Note 45 — Thursday May 31[40]

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"Mr Butler moved to have the proposition relating to the first branch postponed, in order to take up another,—which was that the second branch of the Legislature consist of blank.

"M^r King objected to the postponement for the reasons which he had offered before."—Pierce's Notes, Id., iii., 319.

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