The ratification of the Conventions of * * * States shall be sufficient for organizing this Constitution.
This Constitution shall be laid before the United States in Congress assembled, for their approbation; and it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should be afterwards submitted to a Convention chosen in each State, under the recommendation of its legislature, in order to receive the ratification of such Convention.
To introduce this government, it is the opinion of this Convention, that each assenting Convention should notify its assent and ratification to the United States in Congress assembled; that Congress, after receiving the assent and ratification of the Conventions of States, should appoint and publish a day, as early as may be, and appoint a place for commencing proceedings under this Constitution; that after such publication, the Legislatures of the several States should elect Members of the Senate, and direct the election of Members of the House of Representatives; and that the Members of the Legislature should meet at the time and place assigned by Congress, and should, as soon as may be, after their meeting, choose the President of the United States, and proceed to execute this Constitution.
Adams, Secretary J. Q. Applies to Pinckney for draught, p. 4, 26 Interview with Rufus King, p. 145
Ambassadors To be appointed by the Senate, p. 82, 102, 210
Article III of Pinckney's Draught Relied upon by Madison, p. 61, 62, 93, 99, 100
Article V of Pinckney's Draught Relied upon by Madison, p. 61, 101
Article VIII of Pinckney's Draught Relied upon by Madison, p. 60, 78, 79, 82, 84, 97 Sustained by the Observations, p. 134
Bancroft, George, Expresses the general judgment, p. 7
Bill of Rights Not adopted by the Committee or the convention, p. 270 But is, in Pinckney's draughts and Observations, p. 270
Bridge which Madison built For Pinckney's friends, p. 6, 7, 21, 44
Butler Pierce of South Carolina Thinks election by the people impracticable, p. 87
Charges of Madison Analysed, p. 58, 62, 63
Chesapeak, the frigate, Surrender of, p. 56
Citizens. The clause securing privileges and immunities, p. 252
City Tavern, Members of the Convention dinner at, p. 239
Committee of Detail Appointed to prepare the Constitution, p. 69, 232 Report of the Committee, p. 69 Names of the Committee, p. 75 Secrecy of the Committee, p. 75, 76 Report exceeds instructions, p. 70 Consistent silences of the Committee until death, p. 200 How the Committee followed Pinckney, p. 213 The printing of the draught, p. 233, 234