 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1857 - 356 pages
...before that body; and in February, 1787, Congress, by a resolution, declared that it was expedient "that a convention of delegates, who shall have been, appointed...reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States,... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1857 - 504 pages
...: — " Resolved, — That in the opinion of congress, it is expedient, " that on the 2d Monday of May next, a convention of delegates, " who shall have...of confederation, and reporting to congress and the sev" eral legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein, as " shall, when agreed to in congress,... | |
 | Andrew White Young - International law - 1858 - 460 pages
...establishing in these states a firm national government : " Resched, That, in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday in May...states, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and exclusive purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several... | |
 | William Archer Cocke - Constitutional history - 1858 - 444 pages
...in compliance with this recommendation that delegates were chosen in the several States, " for the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several State legislatures such alterations and provisions therein, as shall, when agreed to in Congress and... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1859 - 674 pages
...submitted by the latter, after being amended, was agreed to : " Resolved, That in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next,...reporting to Congress and the several Legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the States,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 668 pages
...submitted by the latter, after being amended, was agreed to : " Resolved, That in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next,...reporting to Congress and the several Legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the States,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1860 - 572 pages
...system of government;1 that it should advise the States to confer that power in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday in May...convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed hy the several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles... | |
 | Nathaniel Carter Towle - Constitutional history - 1861 - 460 pages
...establishing in these States a firm national government : Resolved, That in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient, that, on the second Monday in May...reporting to Congress, and the several legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the States,... | |
 | 1861 - 736 pages
...February, 1787, the following Kesolution was passed by them. " Resolved, That in the opinion of Congress it is expedient, that on the second Monday in May...reporting to Congress and the several Legislatures such alterations and provisions therein, as shall, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the States,... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...1787, the several States appointed delegates, who attended a Convention ' for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation,...reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the Stalet,... | |
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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 to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations... 
