 | Thomas Francis Gordon - 1834 - 640 páginas
...several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the...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,... | |
 | Thomas Francis Gordon - 1834 - 626 páginas
...several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the...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 páginas
...several States, be held in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the...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 - 1834 - 810 páginas
...sanctioned and advised the proposed Convention, "for the sole and express purpose of reviling the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the...States, render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigences of Government, and the preservation of the Union." Delegates were accordingly appointed by... | |
 | George Washington - 1835 - 568 páginas
...several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the Bole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the...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 - 1836 - 500 páginas
...several states, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to congress and the...legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein, as shah', when agreed to in congress, and confirmed by the states, render the federal constitution adequate... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 580 páginas
...several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the...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 - 1839 - 576 páginas
...several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union." — Journals, February 2U«. The letter from Mr. Madison, written on... | |
 | 1841 - 604 páginas
...delegates from all the states to be holden at Philadelphia, "for the purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to congress and the...states, render the Federal constitution adequate to the emergencies of government, and the preservation of the Union. This was a highly important, a critical... | |
 | 1842 - 498 páginas
...several states, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to congress and the...states-, render the federal constitution adequate to the exigences of government, and the preservation of the union." (1 Elliott's Debates, 155.) Such was the... | |
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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... 
