"Delegate Votes on 28 Motions at the U. S. Constitutional Convention, 1787"

This data set contains delegate votes on 28 motions at the U.S. Constitutional Convention -- an earlier NSF project.  Nine of the motions are related to slavery, sixteen come from a disparate list created by McDonald (1958), and four are related to public debt and currency issues (one of which is also in the second category).  Votes were inferred from delegate statements in debate, speeches, manuscripts, and other sources, as well as the formal rule that each state's vote is determined by the majority of its delegation.  The unit of anlaysis is the individual delegate who attended the Constitutional Convention.  Each observation includes the delegate's name, state, ICPSR state code, state vote on the motion, and the vote inferred for the delegate on the motion. 

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