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...express purpose of revising the " articles of confederation, and reporting to congress and the sev" eral legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein,..." render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of "government and the preservation of the union." Prom these two acts, it appears, 1st,...

...the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several State legislatures such alterations and provisions therein,...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of the government." On the second Monday in May, 1787, this convention assembled in Philadelphia. It was seen at once that...

...in compliance with this recommendation that delegates were chosen in the several States, " for the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several State legislatures such alterations and provisions therein, as shall, when agreed to in Congress and...

...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 exclusive purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several...

...On February 21, 1787, Congress passed a resolution calling a c convention, for ihe sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation,...alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed in Congress, and confirmed by the states, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies...

...convention, for t lir sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting lo Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed in Congress, and confirmed by the states, render the federal Constitution adequate lo the exigencies...

...Massachusetts delegates moved that Congress lend its support to a convention for the "sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several state legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and...

...May next, a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several states, be held in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of...legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of the government and the preservation of...

...the resolution of the Congress of the confederacy calling the convention, "for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several state legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein, as shall render the federal constitution...