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  1. Overview: U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition)
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  3. Committee:Committee of Style and Arrangement
  4. Session: 1787-09-12 15:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 (2021 Edition)

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

Committee of Style and Arrangement

Committee charged with redrafting the version of the Constitution proposed by the Committee of Detail and amended by the Convention.

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Session 6324: 1787-09-12 15:00:00

Report on Articles XXII and XXIII created.

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XXII.

This Constitution shall be laid before the United States in Congress assembled, 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.

XXIII.

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 nine 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, proceed to execute this Constitution.

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