| William D. Jones - 1864 - 276 páginas
...Virginia, the other by William Patterson, of New Jersey. A resolution also was offered, declaring, "That 'a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive." As this resolution proposed a radical change in the system... | |
| W. Divoll - 1866 - 158 páginas
...convention which formed the Constitution, (we quote from " Towle-s Analysis,") On motion of Mr. Randolph it was Resolved,—" That a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a Supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary." Mr. Patterson of New Jersey offered the following substitute... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1866 - 290 páginas
...lays great stress on the fact, that the first resolution passed by the Convention of 1787 declared, "That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive." But the fact only shows that the Convention, when it first... | |
| William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 páginas
...contemplated in the existing system, he himself proposed to substitute for it the following declaration : " That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary." The substitute was intended to mark more clearly the distinction... | |
| Le Baron Bradford Prince - 1867 - 180 páginas
...Mr. Morris' third Resolution was as follows — brief, but all-important to our future prosperity : "Resolved, That a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a time postponed, but it is worthy of remark that the term of office was on that day fixed at seven years.... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1867 - 36 páginas
...merely Federal," or of " treaties among the States as individual sovereignties," it was declared " that a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive and judiciary." Better words could not have been chosen to express the prevailing... | |
| Timothy Farrar - 1867 - 560 páginas
...preservation of the Union." The Convention itself expressed the same idea in their first resolution thus : " That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary;" and, lastly, the people of the United States said the same... | |
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