 | Massachusetts. Convention - 1856 - 470 sider
...express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the several Legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union." And whereas, the General Court have constituted and appointed you their... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 sider
...express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several Legislatures such alterations and provisions therein...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.' " It was by the delegates chosen by the several States, under the resolution... | |
 | Massachusetts. Convention - 1856 - 474 sider
...express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the several Legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein...States, render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies pf Government and the preservation of the Union." And whereas, the General Court have constituted... | |
 | 1857 - 504 sider
...express purpose of revising the " articles of confederation, and reporting to congress and the sev" eral legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein,...constitution adequate to the exigencies of "government and the preservation of the union." Prom these two acts, it appears, 1st, that the object of the convention... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1857 - 356 sider
...express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein...States, render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of the government and the preservation of the Union." § 43. In consequence of these proceedings,... | |
 | William Archer Cocke - 1858 - 444 sider
...1787. It was in compliance with this recommendation that delegates were chosen in the several States, " for the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation...States, render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of the government." On the second Monday in May, 1787, this convention assembled in Philadelphia.... | |
 | REV. WILLIAM BACON STEVENS, M.D., D.D. - 1859 - 522 sider
...express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the several Legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union/'2 Georgia saw the necessity, and approved the plan, of a general Convention... | |
 | 1861 - 736 sider
...express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several Legislatures such alterations and provisions therein,...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union." Pursuant to this Resolution each of the States, except Rhode Island,... | |
 | Nathaniel Carter Towle - 1861 - 460 sider
...express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the several legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the Union. EXTRACTS FROM THE ACTS OF THE STATES AUTHORIZING THE APPOINTMENT OF... | |
 | 1861 - 456 sider
...confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several Legislatures such alterations and provisions therein us shall, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by...States, render the federal constitution adequate to the exigences of government and the preservation of the Union." ^f It was, by the delegates chosen, by... | |
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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... 
