| George Bancroft - 1882 - 556 páginas
...Philadelphia on the second Monday of the next May to consider the situation of the United States, and devise such further provisions as should appear necessary...federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union; and to report to congress such an act as, when agreed to by them and CHAP. confirmed by the... | |
| Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1882 - 592 páginas
...consideration the situation of the United States ; to devise such further provisions as shall to them seem necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union ; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States, in Congress assembled, as,... | |
| Jack D. Fleer - 1994 - 384 páginas
...Carolina agreed to a federal convention at Philadelphia "to devise such further provisions as shall appear. . . necessary to render the constitution of...federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union."25 North Carolina's delegates played a modest part in the deliberations. Three of them — William... | |
| DIANE Publishing Company - 1994 - 90 páginas
...consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled as, when... | |
| Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 páginas
...convention, set for Philadelphia in 1787, "to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." Writing to Monroe from Annapolis, Madison reported that this was "an intimation of the expediency... | |
| Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 páginas
...Alexander Hamilton) calling for a new convention at Philadelphia in May 1787 to discuss all matters necessary "to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union."28 By late 1785 Washington himself had concluded that the confederation was "a shadow without... | |
| Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 páginas
...Philadelphia on the second Monday in May 1787 to debate not only joint commercial problems but also "to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union."15 Congress, responding to the sentiment of the Annapolis convention, and too weak to reform... | |
| Fritz Hirschfeld - 1997 - 286 páginas
...the call went out to all of the states to send representatives to gather in Philadelphia in May 1 787 to "render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." George Washington, summoned from his retirement at Mount Vernon, led the Virginia delegation.... | |
| Lance Banning - 1995 - 566 páginas
...consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union, and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled as, when... | |
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