| Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1866 - 288 σελίδες
...commissioners to meet at Philadelphia, "to take into consideration the condition of the United States, and to devise such further provisions as shall appear...Federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union."* Again, he says, in the ratifying convention of New York, "The Confederation was framed amidst... | |
| John Alexander Jameson - 1867 - 594 σελίδες
...discovered to exist;" and that the Convention meet on the 2d Monday in May, 1787, at Philadelphia, "to take into consideration the situation of the United...provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Con1 Ell. Deb., Vol. L pp. 98-100. 3 New Jersey had instructed her delegates to the Annapolis Convention... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1867 - 616 σελίδες
...appoint commissioners, not merely to deliberate on the subject of commerce, but with enlarged powers, " to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as should appear to them necessary, to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the... | |
| John Church Hamilton - 1868 - 604 σελίδες
...their endeavours to procure the concurrence of the other states, in the appointment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the second Monday in May next,...devise such further provisions as shall appear to diem necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1869 - 856 σελίδες
...their endeavours to procure the concurrence of the other states, in the appointment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the second Monday in May next,...render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigenciei of the union, and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States... | |
| 1919 - 636 σελίδες
...various states of the Union assembled at Philadelphia to "devise such further provisions as shall appear necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." At that convention the original draft of the Constitution of the United States was framed.... | |
| Nathaniel Carter Towle - 1871 - 490 σελίδες
...the pen of Alexander Hamilton, recommending the appointment of commissioners from all the States, "to meet at Philadelphia on the second Monday in May next,...appear to them necessary to render the Constitution 6f the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." When this report reached Virginia,... | |
| Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 676 σελίδες
...to meet in Philadelphia, on the second Monday in May next, to devise such measures as might appear necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union.1 In the mean time, national affairs grew worse. To the chronic neglect to comply with the requisitions... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1873 - 562 σελίδες
...virtue and wisdom of all the members of the Confederacy," recommended the meeting of a Convention " to devise such further provisions as shall appear...Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." In accord with this recommendation, the Congress of the Confederation proposed a Convention... | |
| John Alexander Jameson - 1867 - 582 σελίδες
...discovered to exist;" and that the Convention meet on the 2d Monday in May, 1787, at Philadelphia, " to take into consideration the situation of the United...provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Con1 Ell. Deb., Vol. I. pp. 93-100. 2 New Jersey had instructed her delegates to the Annapolis Convention... | |
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