The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ORDER THE MAIN QUESTION ON PASSAGE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT RESOLUTION.
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
Every member's recorded position linked directly to their file.
- This vote predates the chambers' digital roll-call records (Senate begins 1989, House 1990). It is reproduced from the official Journals of Congress as compiled by Voteview (UCLA).
How the vote fell · we worked out this outcome from the vote counts (see sources)
How each state's members voted
In 6 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 4 every one voted no; 6 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its members voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: no member on this roll call
- Vermont: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Washington: no member on this roll call
- Idaho: no member on this roll call
- Montana: no member on this roll call
- North Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Minnesota: no member on this roll call
- Illinois: no member on this roll call
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 8 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 1 no
- Massachusetts: 5 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: no member on this roll call
- Nevada: no member on this roll call
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: no member on this roll call
- Indiana: no member on this roll call
- Ohio: no member on this roll call
- Pennsylvania: 5 yes, 1 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- California: no member on this roll call
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: no member on this roll call
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 0 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 13 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 4 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 1 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 0 no
- North Carolina: 4 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 1 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: no member on this roll call
- Florida: no member on this roll call
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Connecticut 0 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Tallmadge (Federalist) — NAY
- Calvin Goddard (Federalist) — NAY
- Elias Perkins (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Cotton Smith (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Davenport (Federalist) — NAY
- Roger Griswold (Federalist) — NAY
- Samuel Whittlesey Dana (Federalist) — NAY
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no
Georgia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Milledge (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Kentucky 2 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 5 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Ebenezer Mattoon (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Bacon (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Josiah Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lemuel Williams (Federalist) — NAY
- Manasseh Cutler (Federalist) — NAY
- Nathan Read (Federalist) — NAY
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — NAY
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Thatcher (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Seth Hastings (Federalist) — NAY
- William Eustis (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Shepard (Federalist) — NAY
Maryland 4 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Archer (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Campbell (Federalist) — NAY
- John Dennis (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Plater (Federalist) — NAY
- Walter Bowie (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 4 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Henderson (Federalist) — NAY
- Charles Johnson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Stanly (Federalist) — NAY
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Robert Williams (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Barry Grove (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Hill (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
New Hampshire 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Abiel Foster (Federalist) — NAY
- George Baxter Upham (Federalist) — NAY
- Joseph Peirce (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Tenney (Federalist) — NAY
New Jersey 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 8 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Walker (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Peter van Ness (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Latham Mitchill (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Theodorus Bailey (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Morris (Federalist) — YEA
Pennsylvania 5 yes, 1 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Woods (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac van Horne (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Andre Hanna (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Stewart (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hemphill (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Boude (Federalist) — NAY
- William Hoge (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Jones (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 1 yes, 1 no
South Carolina 1 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Huger (Federalist) — NAY
- John Rutledge Jr. (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Winn (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lowndes (Federalist) — NAY
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 1 yes, 0 no
Virginia 13 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Anthony New (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Johns Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Stratton (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Philip Rootes Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Richard Brent (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Jordan Cabell (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Branch Giles (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Israel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Richard Morris (Federalist) — NAY
Every vote, by name — 107 members
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