Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:
Person joining a committee
Person leaving a committee
Person elected to a position
Roll-call
Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:
Create a new proposal
Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)
Document amendment proposed
Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)
Amendment taken from another committee
Debate a proposal
Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:
Legislative text
Formal Resolutions
A message to be sent elsewhere
A petition to be considered
Rules and Orders of Business
Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:
Drop a proposal
Refer a proposal to another committee
Adopt a proposal
Other vote (continue debate)
Reject a proposal
Postpone a debate
Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)
Procedural motion
Procedural motion with sub-decisions
Debate on a procedural motion
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A collection of primary source material detailing the state of the convention between 14 and 25 May, 1787. People include George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Price, Thomas Jordan, Arthur Lee, John Dickinson, George Mason, Rufus King, Jeremiah Wadsworth, and George Read.
Cite as: Eileen Jakeway, 14-25 May, 1787, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, accessed 2025)
List of conventions with resources
To see where the resources are in the convention, click on the corresponding convention below.
Locations of resources in the convention
To see highlight the related resources to the session in the convention, click on the corresponding coloured circle below or the highlighted committee.
Details
Where available, all resources are linked to a digital edition of the primary source. Where primary sources are not available online, links to other online digital libraries of text transcriptions, such as National Archives' Founders Online, Consource, Online Library of Liberty (OLL), and the Yale Avalon Project are listed. Editor made note when Consource and the OLL draw their transcriptions from Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 3 (1911) and included other source texts where necessary. Where primary source material collections were found but not digitally available, additional link was placed in resource collection for researchers to explore further.
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