Representing the Remaining Parts of the Fourth Clause of the Report of the Grand Committee on Postponed Questions
Commentary
Farrand himself appears to have given up in despair at the confused relationship between the account of questions and the Detail of Ayes and Noes in the Journal's record of this section. On some vote counts the Journal provides only the vaguest reference to the question to which the vote is attached, for which the editors have attempted to compensate by comparison with Madison's record. Madison and the Journal offer quite divergent accounts of the order of questions: Madison's account has largely been followed in accordance with our usual modus operandi, supposing that Madison is less inclined to tidy up his account.
Second Report of the Grand Committee on Postponed Questions: Fourth Clause - Remaining Parts was proposed
on 06 September 1787
Representing the Remaining Parts of the Fourth Clause of the Report of the Grand Committee on Postponed Questions
Research Assistants' Commentary (1787 Constitutional Convention)
Cite as: Grace Mallon, ‘Representing the Remaining Parts of the Fourth Clause of the Report of the Grand Committee on Postponed Questions’ in Research Assistants' Commentary (1787 Constitutional Convention), Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2016), item 54.