 | Henry Simpson - Biography - 1859 - 1170 pages
...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, on that day,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1859 - 604 pages
...take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution...the federal government adequate to the exigencies of Hie union, and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in congress assembled, as,... | |
 | Nathaniel Carter Towle - Constitutional history - 1861 - 460 pages
...into consideration the situation of the United States ; to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution...federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." When this report reached Virginia, it found the legislature in session. The proposition was... | |
 | WM. B. WEDGWOOD LL.D., - 1861 - 30 pages
...into consideration the situation of the United States, and to devise such provisions as should seem to them necessary to render the Constitution of the...Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." .Delegates were soon after appointed from all the States except Rhode-Island. The delegates,... | |
 | Sidney George Fisher - Slavery - 1862 - 414 pages
...take into consideration the situation of the United States, and to devise such other measures as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution...Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." The proposition was favorably received. Deputies were appointed by all the States except Rhode... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Kansas - 1862 - 440 pages
...appointment of commissioners to consider the situation of the United States, and to devise provisions to render the constitution of the Federal Government " adequate to the exigencies of the Union." New commissioners from twelve states met accordingly in convention, and adopted a constitution... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 850 pages
...the object of the proposed Convention is expressed — " to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution...federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union," indicates clearly Hamilton's determined purpose to endeavor to establish a well organized NATIONAL... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Secession - 1866 - 290 pages
...into consideration the condition of the United States, and to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution...Federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union."* Again, he says, in the ratifying convention of New York, "The Confederation was framed amidst... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...at Philadelphia, on the second Monday in May next, to devise such further provisions as shall appear necessary to render the constitution of the Federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." A select committee, consisting of Mr. Matthews (who had been chairman of the committee of the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1867 - 604 pages
...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 Rhode... | |
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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... 
