This precipitancy gave rise to considerable dissatisfaction and led several delegates to declare that they would not sign the completed document.

But on the whole the sentiment of the Convention was overwhelmingly favorable.

Accordingly on Saturday, the 8th of September, a new committee was appointed, to consist of five members, whose duty it was "to revise the stile of and arrange the articles which had been agreed to by the House." The committee was chosen by ballot and was made up exclusively of friends of the new Constitution: Doctor Johnson of Connecticut, Alexander Hamilton, who had returned to Philadelphia to help in finishing the work, Gouverneur Morris, James Madison, and Rufus King.

On Wednesday the twelfth, the Committee made its report, the greatest credit for which is probably to be given to Morris, whose powers of expression were so greatly admired.

Another day was spent in waiting for the report to be printed.