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Mr Govr Morris moved to strike out Decr & insert May. It might frequently happen that our measures ought to be influenced by those in Europe, which were generally planned during the Winter and of which intelligence would arrive in the Spring.
Mr Madison 2ded the motion, he preferred May to Decr because the latter would require the travelling to & from the seat of Govt in the most inconvenient seasons of the year.
Mr Wilson. The Winter is the most convenient season for business.
Mr Elseworth. The summer will interfere too much with private business, that of almost all the probable members of the Legislature being more or less connected with agriculture.
Mr Randolph. The time is of no great moment now, as the Legislature can vary it. On looking into the Constitutions of the States, he found that the times of their elections with which the election of the Natl Representatives would no doubt be made to coincide, would suit better with Decr than May. And it was advisable to render our innovations as little incommodious as possible.
On the question for "May" instead of "Decr"
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Mr Read moved to insert after the word "Senate," the words, "subject to the Negative to be hereafter provided." His object was to give an absolute Negative to the Executive–He considered this as so essential to the Constitution, to the preservation of liberty, & to the public welfare, that his duty compelled him to make the Motion.
Mr Govr Morris 2ded him. And on the question