 | Presbyterian church in the U.S.A. - 1863 - 712 pages
...Congress, and the several Legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to by Congress, and confirmed by the States, render the...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the Union."* The result was the assembling of that body, by which, with Washington... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...to appoint commissioners, to meet at Philadelphia in the succeeding May, "for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation,...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the Union." In conformity with this resolution, all the states, except Rhode Island,... | |
 | 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,...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.' " It was by thevlelegates chosen by the several States, under the resolution... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1863 - 548 pages
...motion was then made, by the delegates for Massachusetts, to postpone the further consideration of ihe report, in order to take into consideration a motion...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union." FEDERAL CONTENTION. George Washington their president, and proceeded... | |
 | Abel Parker Upshur - Constitutional history - 1863 - 188 pages
...transmitted to congress, who approved of the recommendation it contained, and on the 21st of February, 1787, resolved, " that in the opinion of congress, it is...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the union." (1 Elliott's Debates, 155.) Such was the origin of the convention of... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 pages
...Congress,. 1787 : " Resolved, that in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday of May next, a Convention of delegates, who shall have...States, render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of the Government and the preservation of the Union. With this the commissions from the... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Article of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government, and the preservation of the Union. — Journal of Congress, rol. IV, p. — . The legislatures of all the... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention, William Blair Lord, Henry Martyn Parkhurst - Constitutional conventions - 1864 - 744 pages
...accordingly, on the 2 1st. of February, 1787, adopted the following resolution, 1. Elliott, 120 : " Resolved, That in the opinion of Congress it is expedient...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union." The object then, as will be seen, in calling a Convention, was, not... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 pages
...Congress, though unwillingly, to agree to the plan. On the N 21st of February, 1787, it was resolved, "That, on the second Monday in May next, a Convention...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union." Hamilton had thus gained two most important steps. He had the sanction... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 504 pages
...Congress, though unwillingly, to agree to the plan. On the K 21st of February, 1787, it was resolved, "That, on the second Monday in May next, a Convention...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union." Hamilton had thus gained two most important steps. He had the sanction... | |
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Resolved, That, in the opinion of 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, for the sole and express purpose of revising... 
