AN ANALYTICAL INDEX OF THE CONSTITUTION AND AMENDMENTS WILL BE SEEN AT PAGE 38, AND AN INDEX TO THE RESIDUE OF THE MATTER CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME WILL BE FOUND AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE BOOK.
3. PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS, presenting the exposed condition of the trade and commerce with foreign countries, and the destructive effect of foreign policy, and recommending that power for their protection be vested in Congress. 30th April, 1784.... 140 4. REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS, with a statement of the reasons why the States should confer upon Congress the powers therein enumerated. 13th July, 1785....
9. RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS appointing committees to repair to the States, to make such representations as might induce them to carry the requisitions of Congress into effect with the greatest despatch. 22d May, 1782...
13. PROCEEDINGS AND REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS FROM SEVERAL OF THE STATES, AT ANNAPOLIS, recommending a Convention to meet at Philadelphia, with ample powers to adopt a Con- stitution adequate to the exigencies of the Union. 11-14th September, 1786.......
15. AN ACT to establish a uniform time for holding elections for electors of President and Vice President in all the States of the Union. 23d January, 1845...