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Resolutions from the Convention for the Committee of Detail

Research Assistants' Commentary (1787 Constitutional Convention)

Cite as: Grace Mallon, ‘Resolutions from the Convention for the Committee of Detail’ in Research Assistants' Commentary (1787 Constitutional Convention), Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2016), item 28.

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Resolutions from the Convention for the Committee of Detail

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Farrand includes, among his 'Committee of Detail Papers', a copy of the resolutions from the Convention (the newly amended Virginia Plan). Among these resolutions (reported, he suggests, on July 23rd) is a version of the 9th resolution as would be agreed by the Convention on July 26th. The editors believe that this version of the document, including the 9th resolution, could only possibly have come into being on the 26th, when the 9th resolution had been debated and agreed with very significant alterations from its form on the 23rd. For this reason, the version of the resolutions here does not include the 9th resolution.