 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 页
...to meet in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, and to report " to Congress and to the several legislatures such alterations and provisions...Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union." Now, the legislatures of the several States, holding under the constitutions... | |
 | Jabez Delano Hammond - 1842 - 604 页
...several states, should be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the...legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein as should, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the states, under the Federal Constitution, be... | |
 | Jabez Delano Hammond - 1842 - 610 页
...several states, should be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the...legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein as should, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the states, under the Federal Constitution, be... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1843 - 254 页
...several states, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to congress and the...constitution, adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the union.' ( 1 Elliot's Debates, 155.) " Such was the origin of the convention... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1843 - 866 页
...several states, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to congress and the...states, render the federal constitution adequate to the exigences of government, and the preservation of the Union." In consequence of this, delegates to the... | |
 | Henry Sherman - 1843 - 302 页
...States should be held at Philadelphia " for the purpose of revising the ARTICLES OF CONFEDE RATION, and reporting to Congress, and the several legislatures,...States, render the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION adequate to the emergencies of government, and the preservation of the Union." « September 18, 1786. t 1787. CHAPTER... | |
 | William Hickey - 1846 - 396 页
...sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress, and to the several legislatures, such alterations and provisions...shall, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the several States, render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government, and the preservation... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1846 - 564 页
...on the second Monday in May, then next, "for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the...Legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as should, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the States, under the Federal Constitution, be... | |
 | Robert Taylor Conrad - 1846 - 900 页
...the month of May, 1787, at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to congress, and the...legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein, ns should, when agreed to in congress, and confirmed by the states, render the federal constitution... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 566 页
...several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress and the...States, render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of the government, and the preservation of the Union.'" The convention met at Philadelphia.... | |
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Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, 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 and reporting... 
