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title:“Motion by John Rutledge”
authors:John Rutledge
date written:1787-7-5
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Rutledge, John. "Motion by John Rutledge." Supplement to Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Ed. James H. Hutson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. 150. Print.
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Motion by John Rutledge (July 5, 1787)

Proposition by Mr. Rutledge That the Sufrages of the several States be regulated and proportioned according to the sums to be payd towards Revenue, by the Inhabitants of each state respectively. That an apportionment of suffrages according to the ratio aforesaid shall be made and regulated at the End of —Years from the first meeting of the Legislature of the U. S. and so from time to time at the end of every -— Years thereafter but that for the present and untill the end 1st above mentioned Delaware shall have one suffrage.

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