 | American essays - 1886 - 910 pages
...all the States, to meet in convention at Philadelphia on the second Monday of the following May, " to devise such further provisions as shall appear...adequate to the exigencies of the Union, and to report to Congress such an act as, when agreed to by them, and confirmed by the legislatures of every State,... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1857 - 356 pages
...concur " in the appointment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the second Monday in May, 1787, to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as should appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the... | |
 | William Archer Cocke - Constitutional history - 1858 - 444 pages
...they recommended that the delegates to the convention should be intrusted with more enlarged powers, " to devise such further provisions as shall appear...Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union."* This report was transmitted to Congress, and referred to a committee of nJ7.21' that body,... | |
 | Andrew White Young - International law - 1858 - 460 pages
...the powers of the deputies should be extended to other objects than those of commerce, with a view " to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union." § 9. In pursuance of this recommendation, the subject was taken up in congress ; and on the... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1859 - 604 pages
...their endeavours to procure the concurrence of the other states, in the appointment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the second Monday in May next,...the federal government adequate to the exigencies of Hie union, and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in congress assembled, as,... | |
 | Henry Simpson - History - 1859 - 1186 pages
...1787, to take into consideration the situation of the United States, and devise such measures as should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution...Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union. This recommendation was acted upon by Congress, and resulted in the assembling, nn that day,... | |
 | Alfred Billings Street - Constitutional history - 1859 - 622 pages
...into Consideration the Situation of the United States, and to devise such further Provisions as should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution...Federal Government adequate to the Exigencies of the Union.' This the Origin of the present Constitution." From 1789 to 1791, he was a member, from the... | |
 | Henry Simpson - Biography - 1859 - 1170 pages
...1787, to take into consideration the situation of the United States, and devise such measures as should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution...Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union. This recommendation was acted upon by Congress, and resulted in the assembling, on that day,... | |
 | Nathaniel Carter Towle - Constitutional history - 1861 - 460 pages
...system." The report concludes with the recommendation that all the States appoint commissioners, "to meet at Philadelphia on the second Monday in May next,...consideration the situation of the United States, &c." In the Federal Convention. Mr. PINCKNEY'S PLAN. — The legislature of the United States shall... | |
 | WM. B. WEDGWOOD LL.D., - 1861 - 30 pages
...into consideration the situation of the United States, and to devise such provisions as should seem to them necessary to render the Constitution of the...Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." .Delegates were soon after appointed from all the States except Rhode-Island. The delegates,... | |
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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... 
