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... James Madison - Seite 63von Sydney Howard Gay - 1884 - 342 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| jefferson davis - 1881 - 778 Seiten
...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 UnioH, and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when... | |
| Tennessee Bar Association - 1914 - 1764 Seiten
...Philadelphia on the second Monday in May, 1787, "to devise such further provisions as shall appear to be necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union. ' ' This was the convention which framed the Constitution, and the declaration of the Supreme... | |
| Jack D. Fleer - 1994 - 384 Seiten
...agreed to a federal convention at Philadelphia "to devise such further provisions as shall appear. . . necessary to render the constitution of the 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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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.... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1998 - 220 Seiten
...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... | |
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