...Constitutional Convention by introducing a resolution to abolish the Articles of Confederation. Instead, "a national government ought to be established, consisting...a supreme Legislative, executive, and Judiciary." The Virginia Plan, as it would later come to be called, proposed a two-house legislature. The lower...

...Constitutional Convention by introducing a series of resolutions, the most important of which read: "Resolved, That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive." 32The committee adopted this resolution, as Daniel Webster also mentioned...

...reference to a "Judiciary" survived into the final report of the Committee of the Whole on June 13 (that a government "ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary") (M,ii5). The Committee of the Whole agreed to this text on June 19 (M,i48), as did the Convention on...

...States as sovereign, will accomplish or secure their common defence, liberty, or welfare. 3. Resolved, That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme judicial, legislative, and executive. As Yates explains matters, another delegate objected at that...

...sovereign capacities will accomplish their common defence, liberty or welfare. 3. Resolved therefore e the power of making legislature, judiciary and executive. Mr Whythe [sic] presumes from the silence of the house that the...

...government. The heart of the Virginia Plan was contained in a resolution that Randolph proposed on May 30 "that a national government ought to be established consisting of a supreme legislature, judiciary, and executive." The words national and supreme left no doubt about the proposal's...