| Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...determined on a more efficient system than the Confederation, the first resolution adopted by them was, that " a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive." §61. In the establishment of free governments, the division of the three... | |
| Andrew White Young - Economics - 1839 - 472 pages
...from the former? § 181, 182. What evidence i« government ; and a resolution was adopted, declaring " that a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme judicial, legislative, and executive." And in reporting to congress the result of their labors, the... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 578 pages
...by the articles of Confederation, namely, common defence, security of liberty, and general welfare. 2. " That no treaty or treaties among the whole or...a supreme Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary." These three propositions contain an explicit renunciation of all the false doctrine of the articles... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 600 pages
...by the articles of Confederaiion, namely, common defence, security of liberty, and general welfare. 2. " That no treaty or treaties among the whole or...government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislaiive, Executive, and Judiciary." These three propositions contain an explicit renunciation of... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1862 - 914 pages
...Federal, will not accomplish the objects of common defense, security of liberty, arid general welfare ; that no treaty or treaties, among the whole or part...as individual sovereignties, would be sufficient;" and, therefore, " that a national Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative,... | |
| Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 256 pages
...constitution, with the very first resolution of the convention, which formed the constitution : " Resolved, &c. that a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary and executive ?"IT * North American Review, id. 507, 508. 1 4 Elliot's Debates, 320, 32).... | |
| Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1845 - 672 pages
...the Articles of Confederation — namely, common defence, security of liberty, and general welfare. "2. That no treaty or treaties among the whole or...a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary." The motion for postponing was seconded by Mr. G. MORRIS, and unanimously agreed to. Some verbal criticisms... | |
| Joseph Alden - Brothers - 1848 - 156 pages
...up. Accordingly, the first resolution that secured a majority of votes, was this : — ' Resolved, that a National Government ought to be established,...a Supreme Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary.' Still, some of the minority brought forward a plan for revising the Articles of Confederation, and... | |
| Daniel Parker - Constitutional law - 1848 - 174 pages
...the bond which held them together. The result was the adoption of the following resolution : — " That a national government ought to be established,...a supreme Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary." This resolution made it apparent that in the view of the Convention, a mere revision of the Articles... | |
| James A. Williams - Constitutional history - 1848 - 188 pages
...were the framers of the Constitution, of the truth of this principle, that their first resolution was, that "a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive." Some have even proposed that these powers should be entirely separated.... | |
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