The clause in the report of 13 June providing that the members of the first branch of the legislature “receive fixed stipends … to be paid out of the National-Treasury” was under debate ( Farrand, Records Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (4 vols.; New Haven, 1911–37). , I, 228). Mr. Madison concurred in the necessity of preserving the compensations for the Natl....
2Members of the First Branch of the Legislature Barred from Federal Offices, [22 June], [23 June] 1787 (Madison Papers)
Gorham moved to strike out that part of the third resolution of the report of 13 June making a member ineligible to hold any office “under the national government for the space of one year after” the member’s term of service expired ( Farrand, Records Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (4 vols.; New Haven, 1911–37). , I, 228). Mr. Madison. Some gentlemen give too...
3Rule of Representation in the Senate, [29 June], [30 June] 1787 (Madison Papers)
Ellsworth, arguing the advantages of making “the general government partly federal and partly national ,” moved that each state have an equal vote in the Senate ( Farrand, Records Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (4 vols.; New Haven, 1911–37). , I, 474). Mr. Madison. I would always exclude inconsistent principles in framing a system of government. The difficulty...