AMENDMENT:
Number of representatives
Amendment Details:
Date:
Sept. 27, 1787
Type:
Other (e.g., Archival Materials, Websites)
State of Origin:
Virginia (VA)
Summary:
Number of representatives
Text:
That in order to secure the rights of the people more effectually from oppression, the power and respectability of the House of Representatives be increased, by increasing the number of Delegates to that House where the democratic interest will chiefly reside.
Sponsor or Proponent:
Richard Henry Lee (in Congress of the Confederation)
Topics:
lhseats - Size of first chamber
Record Source:
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Digital Edition, ed. John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber and Margaret A. Hogan. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. Canonic URL: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/RNCN-01-01-02-0009-0002- 0020 [accessed 10 May 2011] Original source: Constitutional Documents and Records, 1776–1787, Volume I: Constitutional Documents and Records, 1776–1787
Cite As:
The Amendments Project, edited by Jill Lepore and Tobias Resch, 2023, https://amendmentsproject.org [Record Number ot_17870927ric-ap, accessed 2025-05-05]. Record Source: [The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Digital Edition, ed. John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber and Margaret A. Hogan. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. Canonic URL: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/RNCN-01-01-02-0009-0002- 0020 [accessed 10 May 2011] Original source: Constitutional Documents and Records, 1776–1787, Volume I: Constitutional Documents and Records, 1776–1787]
