...to take Into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions ns should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adoqiiwte HS the exigencies of the Union, and to report such an act for that purpose to tin1 I'nlted...

...Confederation Congress to convene a meeting of all the 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." That meeting, convened in May 1787, became known as the Constitutional Convention. On September...

...only three states responded by year's end in appointing delegates to assemble and devise provisions necessary "to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; ..." M Thereupon the eruption of Shays' Rebellion applied a final smarting whip which soon hastened...

...to "take into consideration the trade and commerce of the United States" and to address all issues necessary "to render the Constitution of the Federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." In New York, the Confederation Congress, powerless to deal with agrarian revolts and the deterioration...

...Articles, and went on to recommend that a second convention should meet at Philadelphia in May 1787 to 'render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the union'. 29 The recommendation was not acted upon until the new year. At first it was either rejected...

...for nearly six months. Alexander Hamilton and other statesmen called for a constitutional convention "to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." Once summoned, the convention deadlocked over the issue of representation in the Congress until...

...September 1786 to reconvene the following May to •devise such further provisions as shell appear to ehen necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union."1 Out of despair and frustration arose the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and with it America's...

...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...

...call for another convention, set for Philadelphia in 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." Writing to Monroe from Annapolis, Madison reported that this was "an intimation of the expediency...

...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...