 | James Spence - Secession - 1861 - 398 pages
...Confederation, and for reporting to the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as should, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the States, render the Federal compact adequate to the exigencies of Government, and the preservation of the Union." There is clearly... | |
 | Nathaniel Carter Towle - Constitutional history - 1861 - 460 pages
...adequate to the exigencies of the Union." NEW YORK, passed February 28, 1787 — "For the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress, and to the several legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...February, 1787, the several States appointed who attended a Convention, ' 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.' " It was by thevlelegates chosen by the several States, under the resolution... | |
 | United States. National Park Service - Constitutions - 1976 - 378 pages
...who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation...reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such Among the prominent men who were not elected as delegates to the Constitutional Convention were Thomas... | |
 | Betsy McCaughey Ross - Biography & Autobiography - 1980 - 388 pages
...Massachusetts delegates moved that Congress lend its support to a convention for the "sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several state legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 556 pages
...shall have been appointed by the several states, be held in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation,...legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of the government and the preservation of... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 612 pages
...the resolution of the Congress of the confederacy calling the convention, "for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several state legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein, as shall render the federal constitution... | |
 | Hjalte Rasmussen - Law - 1986 - 590 pages
...shall have been appointed by the several states, be held in 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,11 Thus, the Constitutional Convention was launched, from which emerged... | |
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Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render... 
