Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.
The main chamber of the Constitutional Convention, consisting of all delegates.
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Resolution 9 agreed. Convention adjourned to allow Committee of Detail to frame a Constitution.
[Proceedings of the Convention, as have been agreed on since Monday last]
Resolved That a national Executive be instituted
— to consist of a Single Person
— to be chosen by the national Legislature
— for the term of seven years
— to be ineligible a second time
with power to carry into execution the national Laws
— to appoint to Offices in cases not otherwise provided for.
— to be removable on impeachment and conviction of malpractice or neglect of duty.
— to receive a fixed compensation for the devotion of his time to public service
— to be paid out of the public Treasury. [+e673180]
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Resolved That it be an instruction to the Committee to whom were referred the proceedings of the Convention for the establishment of a national government, to receive a clause or clauses, requiring certain qualifications of [+e673180]landed [+e673180 -e673185]property and citizenship in the United States for the [+e673180]Executive, the Judiciary, and the [+e673182]Members of both branches of the Legislature of the United States; and for disqualifying all such persons as are indebted to, or have unsettled accounts with the United States from being Members of either Branch of the national Legislature.[+e673180]