Membership of the Grand Committee on Law in the States
Commentary
This committee has almost exactly the same membership as the Committee of Detail, and is concerned with the same subject as that committee: the detail of the law, especially the relationship between the federal government and the states under the new constitution. It could be that the propositions on law in the states were indeed referred to the Committee of Detail, which had by this point exchanged Oliver Elsworth for William Samuel Johnson. On the other hand, the evidence appears to suggest that Elsworth was still in attendance at the Convention at the end of August. For the moment, the propositions on law in the states will be referred to this new committee, rather than to the Committee of Detail.
Associated event
None has left the committee
on 31 August 1787
Membership of the Grand Committee on Law in the States
Research Assistants' Commentary (1787 Constitutional Convention)
Cite as: Grace Mallon, ‘Membership of the Grand Committee on Law in the States’ in Research Assistants' Commentary (1787 Constitutional Convention), Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2016), item 52.