...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...

...the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several State legislatures such alterations and provisions therein,...States, render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of the government." On the second Monday in May, 1787, this convention assembled in Philadelphia....

...Continental Congress, on the 21st February, 1787, adopted a resolution, declaring the expediency of calling a Convention, "for the sole and express purpose of...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...

...shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation,...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the Union. EXTRACTS FROM THE ACTS OF THE STATES AUTHORIZING THE APPOINTMENT OF...

...shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation,...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union." Pursuant to this Resolution each of the States, except Rhode Island,...

...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...

...Congress, and the several Legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to by Congress, and confirmed by the States, render the...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the Union."* The result was the assembling of that body, by which, with Washington...

...the resolution of Congress of the 21st of February, 1787, the several States appointed who attended a Convention, ' for the sole and express purpose of...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.' " It was by thevlelegates chosen by the several States, under the resolution...

...to appoint commissioners, to meet at Philadelphia in the succeeding May, "for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation,...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the Union." In conformity with this resolution, all the states, except Rhode Island,...

...shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation,...constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the union." (1 Elliott's Debates, 155.) Such was the origin of the convention of...