 | Hjalte Rasmussen - 1986 - 590 sivua
...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... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - 1985 - 276 sivua
...convention be called to meet in Philadelphia on the second Monday in 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... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - 1987 - 1168 sivua
...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,...reporting to Congress and the several Legislatures such alterations and provisions as shall render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government... | |
 | Russell L. Caplan - 1988 - 265 sivua
...States and of the Legislatures of the several States. . . . 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... | |
 | Benjamin L. DeWhitt - 1989 - 400 sivua
...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... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 sivua
...of 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 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... | |
 | Jerome B. Agel, Mort Gerberg - 1991 - 68 sivua
...by setting a "grand convention" in centrally located,* crime-ridden, insufferably muggy, Quakerish Philadelphia "for the sole and express purpose of...reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein." Only one state, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, refused... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin - 1997 - 236 sivua
...inception, was instructed by the Continental Congress that it was being established 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... | |
 | James S. Fishkin - 1997 - 270 sivua
...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 sivua
...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,...confederation, and reporting to congress and the several legisla twes, such alterations and provisions therein, as shall be, when agreed to in congress, and... | |
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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... 
