| Joseph Story - 1840 - 394 sider
...on a more efficient system than the Confederation, the first resolution adopted by them was, that " a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive." §61. In the establishment of free governments, the division of the three... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 578 sider
...treaties among the whole or part of the States as individual Sovereignties would be sufficient. 3. " That a national government ought to be established, consisting...a supreme Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary." These three propositions contain an explicit renunciation of all the false doctrine of the articles... | |
| Henry St. George Tucker - 1843 - 256 sider
...with the very first resolution of the convention, which formed the constitution : " Resolved, &c. that a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary and executive ?"IT * North American Review, id. 507, 508. 1 4 Elliot's Debates, 320, 32).... | |
| Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - 1845 - 672 sider
...treaties among the whole or part of the states, as individual sovereignties, would be sufficient. "3. That a national government ought to be established, consisting...a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary." The motion for postponing was seconded by Mr. G. MORRIS, and unanimously agreed to. Some verbal criticisms... | |
| Daniel Parker - 1848 - 172 sider
...bond which held them together. The result was the adoption of the following resolution : — " That a national government ought to be established, consisting...a supreme Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary." This resolution made it apparent that in the view of the Convention, a mere revision of the Articles... | |
| Joseph Alden - 1848 - 156 sider
...Accordingly, the first resolution that secured a majority of votes, was this : — ' Resolved, that a National Government ought to be established, consisting...a Supreme Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary.' Still, some of the minority brought forward a plan for revising the Articles of Confederation, and... | |
| Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1848 - 828 sider
...States, was one recognizing the policy of three distinct departments of government, by declaring that " a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a Supreme Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive." Journal of Conven., 82-3, 139, 207, 215. "The first maxim," says Dr. Paley,... | |
| James A. Williams - 1848 - 188 sider
...framers of the Constitution, of the truth of this principle, that their first resolution was, that "a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive." Some have even proposed that these powers should be entirely separated.... | |
| George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 554 sider
...indulged in one branch of the Legislature.* Soon after, on the consideration of the resolution that " A national Government ought to be established, consisting...a Supreme Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary," he moved to strike out the word national, and retain the proper title, the United Slates. "He could... | |
| George Robertson - 1855 - 422 sider
...treaties among the whole or part of the States, as individual sovereignties, would be sufficient. "3. That a National Government ought to be established, consisting...a supreme Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary." For himself, his colleagues, and his State, he made au able speech explaining their purposes, and vindicating... | |
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