Founding America (Barnes & Noble Classics) - Jack N. Rakove [206]
RESOLVED That the legislative Acts of the United States made by Virtue and in Pursuance of the Articles of Union, and all Treaties made and ratified under the Authority of the United States shall be the supreme Law of the respective States so far as those Acts or Treaties shall relate to the said States, or their Citizens and Inhabitants; and that the Ju dicatures of the several States shall be bound thereby in their Decisions, any thing in the respective Laws of the in dividual States to the contrary notwithstanding.
RESOLVED That a national Executive be instituted to consist of a sin gle Person to be chosen for the Term of six Years with Power to carry into Execution the national Laws to ap point to Offices in Cases not otherwise provided for to be removeable on Impeachment and Conviction of mal Practice or Neglect of Duty to receive a fixed Compen sation for the Devotion of his Time to public Service to be paid out of the public Treasury.
RESOLVED That the national Executive shall have a Right to negative any legislative Act, which shall not be afterwards passed, unless by two third Parts of each Branch of the national Legislative.
RESOLVED That a national Judiciary be established to consist of one Supreme Tribunal the Judges of which shall be appointed by the second Branch of the national Legislature to hold their Offices during good Behaviour to receive punctu ally at stated Times a fixed Compensation for their Ser vices, in which no Diminution shall be made so as to affect the Persons actually in Office at the Time of such Diminution.
RESOLVED That the Jurisdiction of the national Judiciary shall extend to Cases arising under the Laws passed by the general Legislature, and to such other Questions as involve the na tional Peace and Harmony.
RESOLVED That the national Legislature be empowered to appoint inferior Tribunals.
RESOLVED That Provision ought to be made for the Admission of States lawfully arising within the Limits of the United States, whether from a voluntary Junction of Government and Territory, or otherwise, with the Consent of a number of Voices in the national Legislature less than the whole
RESOLVED That a Republican Form of Government shall be guar antied to each State; and that each State shall be protected against foreign and domestic Violence.
RESOLVED That the legislative, executive and judiciary Powers, within the several States, and of the national Government, ought to be bound by Oath to support the Articles of Union.
RESOLVED That the Amendments which shall be offered to the Con federation by the Convention ought at a proper Time or Times, after the Approbation of Congress, to be submited to an Assembly or Assemblies of Representatives, recom mended by the several Legislatures, to be expressly chosen by the People to consider and decide thereon.
RESOLVED That the Representation in the second Branch of the Leg islature of the United States consist of two Members from each State, who shall vote per capita
DRAFT CONSTITUTION
AUGUST 6,1787
MR. RUTLIDGE [DELIVERED IN] the Report of the Committee of detail as follows; [a printed copy being at the same time furnished to each member.]
We the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare, and establish the following Constitution for the Government of Ourselves and our Posterity.
ARTICLE I
The stile of the [this] Government shall be. “The United States of America.”
II
The Government shall consist of supreme legislative, executive, and judicial powers.
III
The legislative power shall be vested in a Congress, to consist of two separate and distinct bodies of men, a House of Representatives and a Senate; each of which shall [,] in all cases