 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...appointed by the several states, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to congress...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the union." This recommendation removed all objections to the regularity of the... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 422 pages
...appointed by the several states, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to congress...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the union.*' § 17. Agreeably to this resolution, deputies from all the states... | |
 | David Ramsay - History - 1817 - 522 pages
...appointed by the several states, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress,...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the Union." This resolution was submitted to the state legislatures and by them... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...appointed by the several states, beheld at " Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the " articles of confederation, and reporting to...*' render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of u government, and the preservation of the union.'' From these two acts, it appears, 1st,... | |
 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...pointed by the several states, be held at Philadel" phia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the " Articles of Confederation, and reporting to..." provisions therein, as shall, when agreed to in Con" gress, and confirmed by the states, render the federal " constitution adequate to the exigencies... | |
 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several states for the express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress,...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the union." •4 This resolvs of Congress opened the way for Gen. Washington to... | |
 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 472 pages
...delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several states for the express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress,...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the union." This resolve of Congress opened the way for Gen. Washington to give... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1821 - 328 pages
...held at Philadelphia, for the " sole and express purpose of revising the articles of con" federation, and reporting to congress and the several " legislatures,...constitution adequate to " the exigencies of government, and the preservation of " the union." The day appointed by this resolution for the meeting of the convention... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, Robert Yates - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 320 pages
...articles of confederation, and reporting such alterations and provisions therein, as» should render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of...government, and the preservation of the union. From these expressions, we were led to believe, that a system of consolidated government could not in the remotest... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1838 - 684 pages
...to be "for the sole and exprera purpose of revising the articles of confederation," >nd reporting " such alterations and provisions therein, as shall,...States, render the federal constitution adequate to the «ijencies of Government, and the preservation of the Union." What Union'. That which had been formed,... | |
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States a firm national government: '-Resolved — That in the opinion of 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... 
