 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1874 - 612 strani
...the resolution of the Congress of the confederacy calling the convention, "for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several state legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein, as shall render the federal constitution... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1874 - 556 strani
...for that purpose, under the following resolution, passed by Congress, February 21, 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 been appointed by the several states, be held... | |
 | Hjalte Rasmussen - 1986 - 590 strani
...national government. Resolved, that, in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that, on Monday second, in 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 reporting... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - 1987 - 1168 strani
...local, but apply equally to all the States. As the Convention was called for "the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation,...several Legislatures such alterations and provisions as shall render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation... | |
 | Benjamin L. DeWhitt - 1989 - 400 strani
...of the Annapolis Convention on February 2 1 , 1787- Congress resolved that "it is expedient that ... a convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held . . . for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress... | |
 | Jerome B. Agel, Mort Gerberg - 1991 - 68 strani
...by setting a "grand convention" in centrally located,* crime-ridden, insufferably muggy, Quakerish Philadelphia "for the sole and express purpose of...legislatures such alterations and provisions therein." Only one state, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, refused to attend. Its rural "leaden-headed... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin - 1997 - 236 strani
...Co., 1987), pp. 98-11L CHAPTER 1: PHILADELPHIA 1, Resolution of Congress, February 21,1787: "Resolved that in the opinion of Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convenlion of delegates who have been appointed by the several states be held at Philadelphia." Documents... | |
 | James S. Fishkin - 1997 - 270 strani
...states elected delegates, however, Congress issued a call for the convention, "for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation...reporting to Congress and the several legislatures" the proposed changes that would render "the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government... | |
 | Abel Parker Upshur - 2015 - 154 strani
...congress, who approved of the recommendation it contained, and on the 21st of February, 1787, resolved, "that in the opinion of congress, it is expedient...confederation, and reporting to congress and the several legisla twes, such alterations and provisions therein, as shall be, when agreed to in congress, and... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 1999 - 836 strani
...Esquires. Greeting. "Whereas Congress did on the twenty first day of February Á° D1 1787, Resolve " that in the, opinion of Congress it is expedient that...who shall have been appointed by the several States to be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation... | |
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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... 
