xx CONSTITUTION OF

IN CONVENTION.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1787.

Resolved, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the
United States in congress assembled; and that it is the opinion
of this convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a
convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people
thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their
assent and ratification: and that each convention assenting to
and ratifying the same should give notice thereof to the United
States in congress assembled.

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this convention, that, as
soon as the conventions of nine states shall have ratified this
constitution, the United States in congress assembled, should
fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the states
which shall have ratified the same, and a day on which
electors should assemble to vote for the president, and the
time and place for commencing proceedings under this con-
stitution ; that, after such publication, the electors should be
appointed, and the senators and representatives elected; that
the electors should meet on the day fixed for the election of the
president, and should transmit their votes, certified, signed,
sealed, and directed, as the constitution requires, to the secre-
tary of the United States in congress assembled; that the sena-
tors and representatives should convene at the time and place
assigned ; that the senators should appoint a president of the
senate, for the sole purpose of receiving, opening and counting
the votes for president; and that, after he shall be chosen, the
congress, together with the president, should, without delay,
proceed to execute this constitution.

By the unanimous order of the convention,

Go. WASHINGTON, President.

W. JACKSON, Secretary.

IN CONVENTION.

SEPTEMBER 17, 1787.

SIR : We have now the honour to submit to the consideration
of the United States in congress assembled, that constitution
which has appeared to us the most advisable.

The friends of our country have long seen and desired that
the power of making war, peace, and treaties; that of levying
money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent execu-
tive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually
vested in the general government of the Union; but the impro-