 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...February, 1787, the several States appointed who attended a Convention, ' for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation,...as shall, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the States, render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation... | |
 | Abel Parker Upshur - Constitutional history - 1863 - 188 pages
...congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday in May next, a convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia,...as shall, when agreed to in congress, and confirmed by the States, render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 pages
...Congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday of May next, a Convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia,...as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of the Government and the... | |
 | Betsy McCaughey Ross - Biography & Autobiography - 1980 - 388 pages
...Massachusetts delegates moved that Congress lend its support to a convention for the "sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several state legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 556 pages
...May next, a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several states, be held in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of...legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of the government and the preservation of... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 612 pages
...the resolution of the Congress of the confederacy calling the convention, "for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several state legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein, as shall render the federal constitution... | |
 | Hjalte Rasmussen - Law - 1986 - 590 pages
...May next, a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several states, be held in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of...as shall, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the states, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin - Law - 1987 - 168 pages
...Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several states be held at Philadelphia...as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the states render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation... | |
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Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render... 
