Journal of the federal convention Monday June 25, 87

It was moved and seconded to erase the word “national” and to substitute the words “United States” (in the fourth resolution)

Which passed in the affirmative

It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the first clause of the fourth resolution in order to take up the eighth resolution reported from the committee

On the question to postpone

It passed in the negative

It was moved and seconded to postpone the consideration of the fourth in order to take up the seventh resolution

On the question to postpone

It passed in the negative

It was moved and seconded to agree to the first clause of the fourth resolution, namely

“Resolved that the members of the second branch of the legislature of the United Stsates ought to be chosen by the individual legislatures”

On the question to agree

It passed in the affirmative

It was moved and seconded to agree to the second clause of the fourth resolution, namely

“to be of the age of thirty years at least”

Which passed unanimously in the affirmative

It was moved and seconded to erase the words “sufficient to ensure their independency” from the third clause of the fourth resolution

Which passed in the affirmative

It was moved and seconded to add after the words “seven years,” in the fourth resolution, the words “to go out in fixed proportions”

It was moved and seconded to insert the word “six” instead of “seven”

It was moved and seconded to amend the clause so as to read

“for four years, one fourth to go out annually”

No determination being taken on the three last motions

It was moved and seconded to erase the word “seven” from the 4rd clause of the fourth resolution

Which passed in the affirmative

It was moved and seconded to fill up the blank in the 3rd clause of the fourth resolution with the word “six”

Which passed in the negative

It was moved and seconded to fill up the blank in the 3rd clause of the fourth resolution with the word “five”

Which passed in the negative

And then the house adjourned till to-morrow at 11 o’clock a.m.

Constitutional Convention, Week of 25 June 1787