...send delegates to a federal convention in order to devise such provisions "as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." When the proposal reached Congress and the states, there was little momentum for a constitutional...

...Philadelphia on the second Monday in May next ... 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. "M With this declaration, the first step was taken toward convening the Constitutional Convention...

...the following May in Philadelphia that would be empowered to make changes "as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union" (Bradford 1984, 42). Hamilton's important role in bringing about the convention stands in stark...

...the Situation of the United States, and 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."20 That convention in Philadelphia drafted the Constitution of the United States. Hamilton was...

...attended by only five state delegations, so another convention was called for May 1787 in Philadelphia to "render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union" (100). The local rebellion against the state government in Massachusetts known as "Shay's Rebellion,"...

...Convention (1786). Although less than half of the states were represented, it was decided that in order "to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union" the states should send delegates to a convention whose labors would then be transmitted to the Congress...

...consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as should appear to them J=4 $=4 Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled as, when...

...the opportunity to recommend that the states meet in Philadelphia in May 1787 to consider measures "to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." Likewise, in light of Shays' insurrection, Congress recommended to the states that they convene...

...the states send commissioners to a new convention at Philadelphia in 1787, to consider all matters necessary to 'render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union'. Congress tackles the instability of paper currency issued by individual states by introducing...

...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...