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after a census, 131. Ought not to be chosen by the people, 137. To be nominated by the state legislatures, 137, 139. Number of members before a census, 129. Number of members, 129, 138, 166, 181, 266, 356, 377. Number from each state, 138, 356, 376, 377, 559. States to be represented in, according to their importance, 174. Ought to represent the states in proportion to their property, 260, 276. Equal representation of the states in it, 131, 166, 178, 181, 219, 260, 261, 274, 285, 310, 317, 376, 377, 396, 415, 416, 559. Represents the states in their political character, 415. Its aristocratic character, 422. Ought to be much smaller than the House of Representatives, 138. To be a restraint on excesses of democracy, 138. Representation of the states in it to be proportional, 138, 190, 238. Vacancies to be supplied by the state executives, 395, 559. Age of its members, 127, 199, 186, 189, 241, 375, 377, 559. Qualifications of its members, 127, 129, 189, 241, 247, 370, 375, 377, 398, 402, 559. Compensation of its members, 127, 190, 246, 271, 375, 378, 560. Ineligibility of its members to office, 127, 130, 190, 247, 375, 378, 420, 503, 505, 560. Reëlection of its members, 127. To choose the President, 144, 507, 508, 509, 512, 513. To consist of persons of wealth and influence, 166. Ought to be able to resist encroachments of the executive, 186. Its duration should be for life, or during good behavior, 203, 205. (, No. 5, p. 585.) To have a property qualification, 247, 272. Not to be ineligible to state offices, 247. Their liability to impeachment, 343. Their incapacity to be electors of President, 343, 562. Vote in it per capita, 356, 377, 397, 559. To have such property qualification as Congress shall provide, 377, 402. Previous term of citizenship required, 377, 398, 559. To be separately convened by the President, 530, 563. Term of senators, 127, 129, 170, 185, 190, 203, 215, 241, 375, 377, 559. Whether the yeas and nays shall be required there, 407. To consent to pardons by the President, 480. Cannot adjourn beyond a certain period, or to another place, without the assent of the House of Representatives, 130, 378, 580. May require the opinion of the judges, 445. Vote in balloting for the President, 472. To be divided into classes, 129, 241, 245, 270, 375, 377, 398, 559. To choose its officers, 129, 377, 401, 559. Majority a quorum, 130, 377. Its privileges, 130, 378, 445, 560. To keep and publish a Journal, 130, 378, 407, 408, 560. May originate acts, 127. Their power as to money bills, 129, 188, 375, 377, 394, 410, 415, 560. To try impeachments, 462, 507, 528, 529, 534, 559. May repass acts returned by the President, 130, 378, 560. Its general legislative power, 130, 205, 378, 379, 408. To declare war, 131, 438. To make treaties, 131, 205, 245, 379, 428, 524, 526, 562. To appoint ambassadors, 131, 379, 467, 562. To appoint judges, 131, 156, 328, 379, 467, 562. Joined with the President in appointments, 131, 205, 328, 330, 349, 507, 523, 562. To decide controversies between the states about territory or jurisdiction, 131, 379. Vice-President to preside over it, 507, 522, 559. Their president to fill the vacancy in the Presidency, 131, 380, 473, 507, 520, 562. First election of, under the new Constitution, 381, 502.

SEPARATION of the Union, 206.

SERGEANTS, mutinous conduct of, 91, 92, 93, 94.

SHAYS'S INSURRECTION, 94, 119, 126.

SHELBURNE, LORD, sincerity doubted, 74.

SHERMAN, ROGER, attends the Federal Convention, 132. Objects to the Constitution deviating too much from the Confederation, 133, 252. Wishes all the powers of government left to the states, that are not absolutely needed for the ends of the Union, 161. Disapproves of an unnecessary interference with the Southern States on the subject of slaves, 457, 451, 477. Prefers the legislative power remaining in a Congress, 218. Wishes a committee to suggest some plan of compromise between the large and small states relative to representation, 270. Wishes daily prayers in the Convention, 254. Objects to any discrimination in the representation of the new and old states, 310, 492. Suggests the number of the executive to be fixed from time to time by the legislature, 140. Views on the election of the President, 142, 322, 472, 508, 513, 516, 519. Wishes executive to be reëligible, 142. Proposes three years as the executive term, 142. Advocates a removal of the President by the legislature, 142. Prefers a single executive, 150. Opposes an absolute negative in the executive, 152, 430. Wishes an executive council, 150. Thinks the President's power of appointment should be limited by law, 474. Opposes an executive during good behavior, 325. Proposes one senator from each state, 138, 178. Advocates the election of senators by the state legislatures, 166, 169. Wishes the consent of the Senate required in pardons by the executive, 480. Advocates an equal Vote of the slates in the Senate, 178, 181. Proposes five years as the senatorial term, 186. Proposes six years as the senatorial term, 241. Wishes a rotation in the Senate, 241. Wishes the judges appointed by the Senate, 328, 329. Views as to the Senate being joined in the treaty power, 523, 526. Approves of the Vice-President being president of the Senate, 522. Advocates election of representatives by the states, 135, 161. Advocates representation in the House of Representatives in proportion to the number of inhabitants, 178, 297. In favor of annual election of representatives, 183, 225. Prefers an election of representatives by the state legislatures, 223. Prefers a payment of the representatives by the state legislatures, 227, 426. Objects to making the representatives ineligible to state offices, 230. Prefers making representatives ineligible to national offices, 231, 423, 505. Objects to making the number of representatives very large, 292. Thinks that the time of annual meeting of Congress should be fixed, 384. His reasons for introducing slaves into the ratio of representation, 392, 393. Objects to requiring the yeas and nays in Congress, 407. Thinks the publication of the Journal should be left to the discretion of Congress, 408. Thinks there is full liberty to make a discrimination between natives and foreigners as members of Congress, 412. Objects to reduce the ratio of representation, 530. Remarks on the negative of Congress on state laws, 172, 468. Views on the power of the general government over the militia, 444, 480. Desires an absolute prohibition on the states in regard to paper money, 485. Views on prohibiting taxes on imports or exports by the states, 486. Objects to a public provision for delivering up fugitive slaves, 487. Objects to requiring more than a majority to pass a navigation act, 489. Opposes exclusive right of the House in regard to money bills, 189. Objects to fixing a rule of taxation before a census, 307. Thinks that in votes by ballot there should be a mutual negative in each House, 382. Wishes a tax on exports prohibited, 433. Approves of Congress assuming the state debts, 441, 452. Proposes the appointment of judges by the legislature, 188. Opposes a national Judiciary that is not appellate, 159. Thinks there is a distinction between treason against the United States and the individual states, 450. Objects to the judiciary trying impeachments, 529. Objects to interference of judges in legislation, 430. Objects to a general bankrupt law, 504. Desires a provision in regard to armies during peace, 511. Thinks any positive prohibition of a religious test unnecessary, 498. Thinks that amendments of the Constitution should be assented to by the several states, 531. Prefers to submit the Constitution to the Congress of the Confederation, but not to require their assent, 533. Views on the mode of ratifying the Constitution, 498, 499, 500. Signs the Constitution, 564.

SHIPS OF WAR, not to be kept by states during peace, 131, 381, 561.