...began its second full scale consideration of that plan. The first resolution read: '"Resolved . . . that a national government ought to be established consisting of a Supreme Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive'" (Records, vol. 1, p. 228). Ellsworth and Gorham sought to remove the word...

...treated in Farrand, Records, III, 595-609, where Pinrkney's plan of May 29 (as reconstructed) is given.] 2. that no treaty or treaties among the whole or part...established consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive & Judiciary. The motion tor postponing was seconded by Mr Govr MORRIS and unanimously agreed to. Some...

...qualified power to veto its acts. On the following day the Convention approved the general principle 'that a national Government ought to be established consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive & Judiciary'. 9 It left almost unlimited scope for debate and was never rescinded. Representation occupied...

...the Articles of Confederation — namely, common defence, security of liberty, and general welfare. 2. That no treaty or treaties among the whole or part...of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary" . . . Some verbal criticisms were raised against the first proposition . . . which underwent a discussion,...

...separated powers from their state governments and colonial experience. The Virginia Plan had proposed "that a national Government [ought to be established] consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive Sc Judiciary," and the expectation of that threeness ran through the convention. But the shape and...

...merely federal will not accomplish the objects [of the Confederation and of paragraph 1 of the Plan]; 2) that no treaty or treaties among the whole or part...of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary" (1:33). Not a federal but a unitary government was thus clearly expressed, a supreme government, in...

...killed the Continental Congress. The first substantive motion to pass in the Federal Convention resolved "that a national government ought to be established consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary and executive" (Farrand 191 1,1: 3o). Though several members are recorded as having expressed...

...Virginia Plan drafted by him, which served as the basis for the new Constitution, provided expressly: "That a national government ought to be established consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary and executive."s3 In basing their deliberations upon Madison's plan, the Framers decided,...

...was "at the suggestion" of Morris, according to Madison. The crucial part of Randolph's revision was that "a national Government ought to be established consisting of a supreme Legislature, Executive, & Judiciary."5 Call this motion b. Since ¿»seemed to several speakers to...

...National Convention of 1787, was about to dispense governmental powers, it adopted as its first resolution that " a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislature, judiciary, and executive." 1 " From this fundamental proposition sprang the subsequent...