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 sovereignties
 of the individual States may be affected, or
whereby their authority over their own citizens may
be diminished, or the authority of the general government
 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 several
 States shall have suffrage in proportion to the

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