Page 68 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

Beers with our Founding Fathers

 Five elected representatives from each colony (i.e. House of

Representatives) and two representatives from the colonial
assembly (i.e. Senate)*

 *In the forthcoming Constitution, senators were originally
appointed by state legislatures to be sure the impartial

representation of the people. Beginning in 1828, several
sessions of Congress attempted to amend the Constitution

for the direct elections of senators. In 1913 the
Seventeenth Amendment doing so was ratified by the

states.
 This new Continental Conference would meet and draft the

Continental Charter for the purpose of independence and

forming a new government for the United Colonies. In this
new government would be a Congress.
 Congress would be comprised of a proper number of

representatives from districts within each colony; possibly

30 delegates from each colony for a total of 390
representatives.

 Congress would meet annually and elect a president, by
lottery. When a president was elected, their colony would

be removed for the next election.
 The passing of laws and election of a president would

require a three-fifths vote; no simple majority.
Common Sense was not well received or appreciated by

everyone. John Adams found it too Democratic, yet the points Paine
made were integrated into oral arguments supporting

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