Yeas: Connecticut, Maryland, 2. Nays: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 8.
It was moved by Mr. Bedford, and seconded, to alter the 2d clause of the 6th resolution, so as to read as follows, namely,—
"and moreover to legislate, in all cases, for the general interests of the Union; and also in those to which the states are separately incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation;"
which passed in the affirmative.
Yeas: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, 6. Nays: Connecticut, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, 4.
It was moved and seconded to agree to the 2d clause of the 6th resolution, as thus amended. Passed in the affirmative.
Yeas: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, 8. Nays: South Carolina, Georgia, 2.
On the question to agree to the following clause of the 6th resolution, reported from the committee of the whole house, namely,—
"to negative all laws passed by the several states contravening, in the opinion of the national legislature, the articles of union, or any treaties subsisting under the authority of the Union,"—
it passed in the negative.
Yeas: Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina, 3. Nays: Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia, 7.
It was moved and seconded to agree to the following resolution, namely:—
"Resolved, That the legislative acts of the United States, made by virtue and in pursuance of the articles of union, and all treaties made and ratified under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the respective states, as far as those acts, or treaties, shall relate to the said states, or their citizens and inhabitants; and that the judiciaries of the several states shall be bound thereby in their decisions, any thing in the respective laws of the individual states to the contrary notwithstanding."
It passed unanimously in the affirmative.
On the question to agree to the 1st clause of the 9th resolution, reported from the committee of the whole house, namely, "that a national executive be instituted, to consist of a single person," it passed unanimously in the affirmative.
It was moved and seconded to strike the words " national legislature" out of the 2d clause of the 9th resolution, re-
