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 I3Z RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, I Resolved Resolved Resolved Resolved Resolved napted by the Exercise of individual Legisla- tion. 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 so far as those Acts or Treaties shall relate to the said States, or their Citizens and Inhabitants; and that the Judicatures of the several States shall be bound thereby in their Decisions, an 7 thing in the respective Laws of the individual States to the contrary notwithstanding. That a national Executive be instituted to con- sist of a single Person- to be chosen for the Term of six Years- with Power to carry into Execution the national Laws--to appoint to Offices in Cases not otherwise provided for- to be removeable on Impeachment and Conviction of mal Practice or Neglect of Duty -- to receive a fixed Compensation for the Devotion of his Time to public Service- to be paid out of the public Treasury. That the national Executive shall have a Right to negative any legislative Act, which shall not be afterwards passed, unless by two third Parts of each Branch of the national Legislative. That a national Judiciary be established to con- sist of one Supreme Tribunal--the Judges of which shall be appointed by the second Branch of the national Legislature b to hold their Of Sces during good Behaviour -- to receive punc- tually at stated Times a fixed Compensation for their Services, in which no Diminution shall be made so as to affect the Persons actually' in Office at the Time of such Diminution That the Jurisdiction of the national Judiciary shall extend to Cases arising under the Laws

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