Debate Resumes on the Compromise "So many forms of government I believe never were contrived before they are floating about here in all directions like Spectators worlds some half-finished, some a quarter, the greatest part but just begun --mere political tadpoles.I am now sitting in the big room [the Assembly Room of Independence Hall]. Your old acquaintance Gouverneur Morris is now speaking..." -Abraham Baldwin to his brother-in-law Joel Barlow Debate resumed on a proposal for one representative for every 40,000 people in the first house. G. Morris moved to send it to a committee to spell out the number for each state, leaving later Congresses to make adjustments. Wilson seconded. Gorham disagreed. He thought numbers of inhabitants the true guide, particularly since Virginia and Massachusetts were about to lose Kentucky and Maine, and other states should be divided. The Convention went back to the proposal for originating money bills in the first house and voted to retain the provision, 5 aye, 3 no, 3 divided.
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