I’ll make sure I take the trash out tomorrow before the garbage truck arrives. We understand everything, but how do you intend to bring these changes about”? It’s going to be challenging to get people to comply.” We’ll get to work on things right away and have a progress report early next week.” “I understand the required changes, and all your requests are duly noted. We’ll bring them up at the next management meeting on Friday and have an answer for you next week.” “Your request to make the changes to the algorithm is duly noted. Typically, the sarcastic side of the expression suits personal and social use, and using it sarcastically in business would likely get you fired or reprimanded. Using it with a sarcastic or ironic intent shows the other person that you don’t have any interest in what they’re saying, and you’re likely to forget about it or fail to act on their request. However, the phrase can have sarcastic use, depending on the request and the situation. If you reply with “ duly noted,” the other person will assume that they don’t have to repeat themselves at a later date and that you are competent enough to act on their instructions. It means that you comply with what the person is asking you, and it also serves as a way for you to acknowledge receipt of their instructions and plan to execute them at their request. It usually features in professional communications, such as email writing where subordinates confirm a manager’s request. The expression “ duly noted” serves as a confirmation statement acknowledging someone else’s instructions or request. This post unpacks the meaning and origin of this expression. As the 1987 celebrants duly noted, without that vote, there would likely have been no Constitution.Did your boss send you an email with a list of requests? You could reply with “ duly noted” to confirm your receipt of the instructions and your intention to execute them. On July 16, the convention adopted the Great Compromise by a heart-stopping margin of one vote. Over the Fourth of July holiday, delegates worked out a compromise plan that sidetracked Franklin's proposal. When Sherman proposed the compromise, Benjamin Franklin agreed that each state should have an equal vote in the Senate in all matters - except those involving money. Small-state delegates demanded, with comparable intensity, that all states be equally represented in both houses. Delegates from the large states believed that because their states contributed proportionally more to the nation's financial and defensive resources, they should enjoy proportionally greater representation in the Senate as well as in the House. The issue of representation, however, threatened to destroy the seven-week-old convention. James Madison explained that these distinctions, based on 'the nature of the senatorial trust, which requires greater extent of information and stability of character,' would allow the Senate 'to proceed with more coolness, with more system, and with more wisdom than the popular branch.' They turned aside a proposal to have the House of Representatives elect senators from lists submitted by the individual state legislatures and agreed that those legislatures should elect their own senators.īy July 16, the convention had already set the minimum age for senators at thirty and the term length at six years, as opposed to twenty-five for House members, with two-year terms. In the weeks before July 16, 1787, the framers had made several important decisions about the Senate's structure. Today, we take this arrangement for granted in the wilting-hot summer of 1787, it was a new idea. In the Senate, all states would have the same number of seats. In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population. Their so-called Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise in honor of its architects, Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth) provided a dual system of congressional representation. Constitution, meeting at Independence Hall, had reached a supremely important agreement.

On that day, two hundred members of Congress boarded a special train for a journey to Philadelphia to celebrate a singular congressional anniversary.Įxactly two hundred years earlier, the framers of the U.S. July 16, 1987, began with a light breeze, a cloudless sky, and a spirit of celebration.

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