Motion to Adjourn Rejected
Commentary
The Journal record for this day includes a motion to adjourn and a vote rejecting that motion: in the Journal's account it is placed after the amendments to the first section of article VII have been proposed and voted on, and before the clauses of the section are taken up and voted on separately. The motion and vote do not appear in Madison, and Farrand writes that there is no reason why the motion should be placed where it is, except for the position of the vote count in the Detail of Ayes and Noes. In any case, since we have followed Madison's timeline of events (the amendments interspersed with the votes on the individual clauses), there is no logical place to put the motion to adjourn. We have therefore left it out.
Report of the Committee of Detail [Resolutions] - Article VII: Section 1 - First Clause (Taxes, Duties, Imposts) was proposed
on 16 August 1787
Motion to Adjourn Rejected
Research Assistants' Commentary (1787 Constitutional Convention)
Cite as: Grace Mallon, ‘Motion to Adjourn Rejected’ in Research Assistants' Commentary (1787 Constitutional Convention), Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2016), item 41.