XXXII 
PROPOSALS FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE CONVENTION 
FOR FORMING THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED 
STATES 
26 June, 1787. 
That the legislatures of the several States shall 
choose and send an equal number of delegates, 
namely, ——, who are to compose the second branch 
of the general legislature. 
That, in all cases or questions wherein the sove- 
reignties of the individual States may be affected, or 
whereby their authority over their own citizens may 
be diminished, or the authority of the general govern- 
ment within the several States augmented, each 
State shall have equal suffrage. 
That, in the appointment of all civil officers of 
the general government, in the election of whom the 
second branch may, by the Constitution, have part, 
each State shall have equal suffrage. 
That, in fixing the salaries of such officers, in all 
allowances for public services, and generally in all 
appropriations and dispositions of money, to be 
drawn out of the general treasury, and in all laws 
for supplying the treasury, the delegates of the sev- 
eral States shall have suffrage in proportion to the 
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