| Finla Goff Crawford - 1927 - Počet stránok 824
...represent the state "for the purposes mentioned." But as if in further explanation the act goes on to say "and to discuss upon such Alterations and Provisions...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union." Erastus Wolcott having declined to serve, the commission consisted... | |
| Bertha Moser Haines, Charles Grove Haines - 1928 - Počet stránok 350
...Philadelphia, May, 1787, "for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation" and "thus to render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the Union." Washington was selected president of the Convention. Fearing the unfavorable... | |
| John Mabry Mathews, Clarence Arthur Berdahl - 1928 - Počet stránok 974
...Resolved, That the articles of con f (Hioration ought to be so revised, corrected, and enlarged, as to render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the union. 2. Resolved, That in addition to the powers vested in the United States... | |
| National Archives (U.S.) - 1952 - Počet stránok 44
...alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union] The material in brackets above is taken from the resolution as passed and recorded in the Rough Journal... | |
| United States, Denys Peter Myers - 1961 - Počet stránok 104
...alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union. The Federal Convention was called at Philadelphia for May 14, 1787, but the necessary quorum of deputies... | |
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - 1919 - Počet stránok 246
...instructions and meeting "for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation" in order to "render the federal Constitution adequate to the...government and the preservation of the Union." The Union to be preserved had been composed but a short time previously of the thirteen American colonies,... | |
| Maryland State Bar Association - 1906 - Počet stránok 200
...first resolution, that "The Articles of Confederation ought to be so revised, corrected and enlarged as to render the Federal Constitution adequate to the...government and the preservation of the Union." The two plans and form of government considered desirable for the country being now before the convention,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1974 - Počet stránok 660
...loose confederation, led the Congress to propose, on February 21, 1787, a convention of State delegates to "render the federal Constitution adequate to the...Government and the preservation of the Union." * THE ATTOBNEY GENERAL AND THE CONSTITUTION The Delegates of the Thirteen States, meeting in Constitutional... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1975 - Počet stránok 560
...convention of the States "for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation ... to render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union." That convention, meeting in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, came... | |
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