 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Secession - 1866 - 288 pages
...commissioners to meet at Philadelphia, "to take into consideration the condition of the United States, and to devise such further provisions as shall appear...Federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union."* Again, he says, in the ratifying convention of New York, "The Confederation was framed amidst... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - Political Science - 1867 - 594 pages
...discovered to exist;" and that the Convention meet on the 2d Monday in May, 1787, at Philadelphia, "to take into consideration the situation of the United...provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Con1 Ell. Deb., Vol. L pp. 98-100. 3 New Jersey had instructed her delegates to the Annapolis Convention... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1867 - 616 pages
...appoint commissioners, not merely to deliberate on the subject of commerce, but with enlarged powers, " 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... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1868 - 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,...devise such further provisions as shall appear to diem necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1869 - 856 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,...render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigenciei of the union, and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1919 - 636 pages
...various states of the Union assembled at Philadelphia to "devise such further provisions as shall appear necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." At that convention the original draft of the Constitution of the United States was framed.... | |
 | Nathaniel Carter Towle - Constitutional history - 1871 - 490 pages
...the pen of Alexander Hamilton, recommending the appointment of commissioners from all the States, "to meet at Philadelphia on the second Monday in May next,...appear to them necessary to render the Constitution 6f the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." When this report reached Virginia,... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - United States - 1872 - 676 pages
...to meet in Philadelphia, on the second Monday in May next, to devise such measures as might appear necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union.1 In the mean time, national affairs grew worse. To the chronic neglect to comply with the requisitions... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1873 - 562 pages
...virtue and wisdom of all the members of the Confederacy," recommended the meeting of a Convention " to devise such further provisions as shall appear...Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." In accord with this recommendation, the Congress of the Confederation proposed a Convention... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - History - 1867 - 582 pages
...discovered to exist;" and that the Convention meet on the 2d Monday in May, 1787, at Philadelphia, " to take into consideration the situation of the United...provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Con1 Ell. Deb., Vol. I. pp. 93-100. 2 New Jersey had instructed her delegates to the Annapolis Convention... | |
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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... 
