Papers and References to Accompany Lectures on the Formation of the Federal Constitution1889 - Constitutional history - 88 pages |
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... representation . Deeply impressed , however , with the magnitude and impor- tance of the object confided to them on this occasion , your com- missioners cannot forbear to indulge an expression of their earnest and unanimous wish , that ...
... representation . Deeply impressed , however , with the magnitude and impor- tance of the object confided to them on this occasion , your com- missioners cannot forbear to indulge an expression of their earnest and unanimous wish , that ...
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... representation should be in proportion to number of free inhabitants and three fifths of other persons , ( 7 , June 13 ) , agreed to , E. 181 . That in second branch each State have one vote , dis- agreed to , E. 181-182 ; B. 33 . That ...
... representation should be in proportion to number of free inhabitants and three fifths of other persons , ( 7 , June 13 ) , agreed to , E. 181 . That in second branch each State have one vote , dis- agreed to , E. 181-182 ; B. 33 . That ...
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... representation ; namely , in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants , of every age , sex , and condition , including those bound to servitude for a term of years , and three - fifths of all other ...
... representation ; namely , in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants , of every age , sex , and condition , including those bound to servitude for a term of years , and three - fifths of all other ...
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... representation of free inhabitants . taken every fifteen years , agreed to , E. 293-300 . To include three - fifths of the negroes , disagreed to , E. 295-301 ; B. 74ff . Whole clause rejected , E. 302 . ( Jy 12 ) representation and ...
... representation of free inhabitants . taken every fifteen years , agreed to , E. 293-300 . To include three - fifths of the negroes , disagreed to , E. 295-301 ; B. 74ff . Whole clause rejected , E. 302 . ( Jy 12 ) representation and ...
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... representation of the States as the basis of it . The eagerness displayed by the members opposed to a national government , from these different motives , now began to produce serious anxiety for the result of the Convention . " Note by ...
... representation of the States as the basis of it . The eagerness displayed by the members opposed to a national government , from these different motives , now began to produce serious anxiety for the result of the Convention . " Note by ...
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Page 7 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Page 8 - Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation ; to negative all laws passed by the several States contravening, in the opinion of the National Legislature, the Articles of Union, or any treaty subsisting under the authority of the Union ; and to call forth the force of the Union against any member of the Union failing to fulfill its duty under...
Page 23 - We the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare, and establish the following Constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity.
Page 8 - Council of revision with authority to examine every act of the National Legislature before it shall operate, & every act of a particular Legislature before a Negative thereon shall be final; and that the dissent of the said Council shall amount to a rejection, unless the Act of the National Legislature be again passed, or that of a particular Legislature be again negatived by of the members of each branch.
Page 8 - Resolved that the members of the second branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by those of the first, out of a proper number of persons nominated by the individual Legislatures...
Page 13 - Resolved that a National Executive be instituted to consist of a Single Person to be chosen by the National Legislature...
Page 8 - Resolved, that the amendments which shall be offered to the Confederation by the Convention, ought, at a proper time or times, after the approbation of Congress, to be submitted to an assembly or assemblies of representatives, recommended by the several legislatures, to be expressly chosen by the people, to consider and decide thereon.
Page 8 - Resolved that the National Legislature ought to consist of two branches. 4. Resolved that the members of the first branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States...
Page 8 - Acts; that the National Legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the Legislative Rights vested in Congress by the Confederation & moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent...
Page 22 - RESOLVED, That it be an instruction to the committee, to whom were referred the proceedings of the convention for the establishment of a national government, to receive a clause or clauses, requiring certain qualifications of property and citizenship, in the United States, for the executive, the judiciary, and the members of both branches of the legislature of the United States.] With the above resolutions were referred the propositions offered by Mr C.