Note 46 — Thursday May 31[40]
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According to Pierce, Mason spoke after Sherman, and Pinckney's motion is given more fully by Pierce than by Madison.
"Mr Mason was of opinion that it would be highly improper to draw the Senate out of the first branch; that it would occasion vacancies which would cost much time, trouble, and expense to have filled up,—besides which it would make the members too dependent on the first branch.
"Mr Chs Pinckney said he meant to propose to divide the Continent into four Divisions, out of which a certain number of persons shd be nominated, and out of that nomination to appoint a senate."—Pierce's Notes, Amer. Hist. Rev., iii., 319.