A Committee of Details was Selected to write the first draft July 24, 1787 •
Committee of Detail, composed of John Rutledge, Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Gorham, Oliver Ellsworth, and James Wilson, is selected to write a first draft constitution reflective of the Resolutions passed by the convention up to that point.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_drafting_and_ratification_of_the_United_States_Constitution
More on the Committee of Detail here
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Detail
Mr. Govr. MORRIS [...]
On motion to discharge the Come. of the whole from the propositions submitted to the Convention by Mr. C. Pinkney as the basis of a constitution, and to refer them to the Committee of detail just appointed, it was agd. to nem: con.
A like motion was then made & agreed to nem: con: with respect to the propositions of Mr. Patterson
Adjourned.
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Article V, the 1787 Formation Process
Index to all the Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention, Federalist 43 and 85, and Jefferson's letter to Samuel Kercheval
>http://indianaliberty.weebly.com/blog/article-v-the-1787-formation-process
Committee of Detail, composed of John Rutledge, Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Gorham, Oliver Ellsworth, and James Wilson, is selected to write a first draft constitution reflective of the Resolutions passed by the convention up to that point.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_drafting_and_ratification_of_the_United_States_Constitution
More on the Committee of Detail here
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Detail
Mr. Govr. MORRIS [...]
On motion to discharge the Come. of the whole from the propositions submitted to the Convention by Mr. C. Pinkney as the basis of a constitution, and to refer them to the Committee of detail just appointed, it was agd. to nem: con.
A like motion was then made & agreed to nem: con: with respect to the propositions of Mr. Patterson
Adjourned.
>http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_724.asp
===========================
Article V, the 1787 Formation Process
Index to all the Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention, Federalist 43 and 85, and Jefferson's letter to Samuel Kercheval
>http://indianaliberty.weebly.com/blog/article-v-the-1787-formation-process