 Virginia's ratification resolution proposed

Anti-Federalist Melancton Smith declared at the New York ratifying convention that

Federalists, who supported the Constitution's ratification, reassured those opposing its ratification by agreeing that the new government should immediately address Anti-Federalist concerns and consider amending the Constitution.This reassurance was essential to the ratification of the new form of government.An amendment establishing a formula for determining the appropriate size of the House of Representatives and the appropriate apportionment of representatives among the states was one of several proposed amendments to the Constitution introduced first in the House on June 8, 1789, by Representative James Madison of Virginia