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 | United States. Congress - United States - 1837 - 740 pages
...conventions. He read: '• JicsoheJ, That the preceding constitution be laid before the United Stales in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this convention that it should afterwards he submitted to the convention of delegates chosen in each Slate by the people thereof, under the recommendation... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...before congress, with their opinions, that it should be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state, by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislatures, for their assent and ratification. 1 Vol. Laws US 70,71. No language can be more plain... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware^ Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Smith Carolina and Georgia. RESOLVED, That the preceding constitution be laid before the United States in congiess assembled ; and that it is the opinion of this convention, that it should afterwards be submitted... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional history - 1837 - 230 pages
...before congress, with their opinions, that it should be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state, by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislatures, for their assent and ratification. 1 Vol. Laws US 70,71. No language can be more plain... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...the United States, with a request that it might " be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation...its legislature, for their assent and ratification." This mode of proceeding was adopted ; and by the convention, by congress, and by the state legislatures,... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...the United States, with a request that it might ' be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation...its legislature, for their assent and ratification.' " This mode of proceeding was adopted; and by the convention, by congress, and by the State legislatures,... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1842 - 610 pages
...result to Congress, with ihe opinion that it should be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for its assent and ratification. The constitution being accepted by eleven of the states, and measures... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 254 pages
...the United States, with a request, that it might 'be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation...its legislature, for their assent and ratification.' This mode of proceeding was adopted; and by the convention, by congress, and by the state legislatures,... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 256 pages
...constitution should be laid before congress, and afterwards submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in EACH STATE by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent. Here then we see that there was, in the ratification, to be a separate action of each state, under... | |
 | Rhode Island Historical Society - Local history - 1843 - 880 pages
...passed through the hands of Congress, it should be " submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature." This submission, being in general terms, cannot be understood as confining such corivenlion to adopt... | |
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