 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 the articles of Confederation and reporting...  Southern Quarterly Review - Page 100edited by - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Francis Gordon - New Jersey - 1834 - 640 pages
...sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the several Legislatures, such alterations and provisions,...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the Union." On the a4th of November, 1786, New Jersey had approved the measure,... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1834 - 434 pages
...ensuing, " for the purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to congress, and the several legislatures, such alterations and provisions...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the Union." The alarming insurrection then existing in Massachusetts, without doubt,... | |
 | Thomas Francis Gordon - History - 1834 - 626 pages
...sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the several Legislatures, such alterations and provisions,...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the Union." On the 24th of November, 1786, New Jersey had approved the measure,... | |
 | James Asheton Bayard - 1834 - 198 pages
...sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the several legislatures, such alterations and provisions...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the union." Under this authority, deputies from all the States, except Rhode Island,... | |
 | Kentucky, Charles Slaughter Morehead, Mason Brown - Law - 1834 - 810 pages
...the sole and express purpose of reviling the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several Legislatures, such alterations and provisions...States, render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigences of Government, and the preservation of the Union." Delegates were accordingly appointed by... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...the Bole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union."—-Journals, February 21«i. The letter from Mr. Madison, written on... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 500 pages
...reporting to congress and the several legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein, as shah', when agreed to in congress, and confirmed by the states,...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the union." This recommendation removed all objections to the regularity of the... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...sole and express purpose of re" vising the articles of confederation, and reporting to congress " and the several legislatures, such alterations and provisions...constitution adequate to the " exigencies of government, and the preservation of the union." From these two acts, it appears, 1st, that the object of the convention... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union." — Journals, February Zlst. The letter from Mr. Madison, written on... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 576 pages
...the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union." — Journals, February 2U«. The letter from Mr. Madison, written on... | |
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