U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition)

Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.

Second Committee on Representation

Committee charged with finding a suitable method of representation in the lower house of the legislature.

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Session 6305: 1787-07-07 11:00:00

Report of the Second Committee on Representation created.

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Proposition for the Second Committee on Representation

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That in the first branch of the Legislature each of the States now in the Union be allowed one Member for every forty thousand inhabitants of the description reported in the seventh resolution of the Committee of the whole House. That each State not containing that number shall be allowed one Member

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