 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...February, 1787, the several States appointed 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 States,... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...to appoint commissioners, to meet at Philadelphia in the succeeding May, "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 states,... | |
 | Abel Parker Upshur - Constitutional history - 1863 - 188 pages
...recommendation it contained, and on the 21st of February, 1787, 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,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 pages
...Congress,. 1787 : " Resolved, that in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday of May next, a Convention of delegates, who shall have...reporting to Congress and the several 'Legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States,... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...and finally passed, on February 21, 1787, the following: Resolved, That in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday in May...at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Article of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures, such... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...expedient, that on the 2d Monday of May next a " Convention of delegates, who shall have been ap" pointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia, "...reporting to Congress and the "several Legislatures such alterations and provisions " therein, as shall, when agreed to in Congress, and con" firmed by the... | |
 | William Roberts - United States - 1863 - 280 pages
...Congress, which body recommended to the several states the appoints ment of delegates to meet in convention at Philadelphia " for the sole and express purpose...Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress such alterations and provisions as should render the federal constitution adequate to the wants of... | |
 | Abel Parker Upshur - Constitutional history - 1863 - 158 pages
...recommendation it contained, and on the 21st of February, 1787, resolved, "that in the opinion of congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday in May next, a convention of delegates who shall liaise been appointed by the several States., be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - Biography & Autobiography - 1863 - 438 pages
...Government, ^Resolved, That, in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that, on the second Monday of May next, a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation • and... | |
 | George McHenry - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 372 pages
...next, a convention of dele' gates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be ' held in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of...revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Con' gress, and the several legislatures, such alterations and pro' visions therein as shall render... | |
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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... 
