| Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1842 - 610 pages
...result to Congress, with ihe opinion that it should be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for its assent and ratification. The constitution being accepted by eleven of the states, and measures... | |
| Henry Sherman - United States - 1843 - 302 pages
...NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA and GEORGIA. RESOLVED. That the preceding CONSTITUTION be laid...assenting to, and ratifying the same, should give notice thereof to the UNITED STATES, in congress assembled. RESOLVED. That it is the opinion of this... | |
| Saint Louis (Mo.). - 1843 - 542 pages
...New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. 1. Resolved, That the preceding Constitution be laid...assenting to, and ratifying the same, should give notice thereof to the United States in Congress assembled. 2. Besofoed, That it is the opinion of this... | |
| Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 254 pages
...the United States, with a request, that it might 'be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation...its legislature, for their assent and ratification.' This mode of proceeding was adopted; and by the convention, by congress, and by the state legislatures,... | |
| Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 256 pages
...constitution should be laid before congress, and afterwards submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in EACH STATE by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent. Here then we see that there was, in the ratification, to be a separate action of each state, under... | |
| Rhode Island Historical Society - Local history - 1843 - 880 pages
...passed through the hands of Congress, it should be " submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature." This submission, being in general terms, cannot be understood as confining such corivenlion to adopt... | |
| United States. Congress. House - Parliamentary practice - 1844 - 108 pages
...Few, Abraham Baldwin. Attest: WILLIAM JACKSON, Secretory. IX CONVENTION. MONDAY, September 17, 1787. Resolved, That the preceding Constitution be laid...convention assenting to and ratifying the same should give notice thereof to the United States in Congress assembled. should fix a day on which electors should... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1845 - 672 pages
...committee of style, &c., of the following resolutions, to be substituted for articles 22 and 23 : a65 " Resolved, That the preceding Constitution be laid...opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards bo submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation... | |
| Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...reported to the then existing Congress, to "be submitted to a Convention of delegates to be chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation...its Legislature, for their assent and ratification." This mode of proceeding was adopted, and the proposed Constitution was accordingly submitted to the... | |
| Charles Miner - Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779 - 1845 - 616 pages
...They recommended that the Constitution should be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, to be chosen in each State, by the people thereof, under the recommendation...its Legislature, for their assent and ratification. Such a Convention being called by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, the people of Luzerne county close... | |
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