...commerce, but with enlarged powers, " to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as should appear...federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." This led to the appointment of delegates from every member of the old confederacy, except Ehode...

...representatives of all flu- States in Philadelphia, in May, 1787 — "to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution...federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." At the time thus designated, the representatives of twelve States — Rhode Island declining...

...consider the situation of the country, and " to devise such further provisions as might appear to be necessary to render the Constitution of the federal...government adequate to the exigencies of the Union," and was at first received with but little favor throughout the country. But gradually the opposition to...

...commerce, but with enlarged powers, "to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as should appear...federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." This led to the appointment of delegates from every member of the old confederacy, except Ehode...

...Philadelphia on the second Monday of the following May, " to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution...adequate to the exigencies of the Union, and to report to Congress such an act as, when agreed to by them, and confirmed by the legislatures of every State,...

...into consideration the situation of the " United States; to devise such further provisions, as shall appear " to them necessary to render the constitution...government adequate to the exigencies of the union; and to re" port such an act for that purpose, to the United States in con" gress assembled, as when agreed...

...States be held at Philadelphia in May, 1787, to take into consideration the condition of the States, to devise such further provisions as should appear...Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union. This was the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States. It has been previously...

...convention should be intrusted with more enlarged powers, " to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution...Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union."* This report was transmitted to Congress, and referred to a committee of nJ7.21' that body,...

...the powers of the deputies should be extended to other objects than those of commerce, with a view " to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union." § 9. In pursuance of this recommendation, the subject was taken up in congress ; and on the...

...May, 1787, to take into consideration the situation of the United States, and devise such measures as should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution...Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union. This recommendation was acted upon by Congress, and resulted in the assembling, nn that day,...