 | Richard C. Simmons - 1981 - 452 Seiten
...did Congress finally resolve that the colonies might if they felt it necessary adopt governments that "shall in the opinion of the representatives of the...and safety of their constituents in particular and of America in general . ' ' Five days later, after heated debates, it added a preamble to this earlier... | |
 | Delaware. Constitutional Convention, Delaware. General Assembly. House of Assembly - 1986 - 630 Seiten
...Government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such Govern-ment as shall in the opinion of the Representatives...constituents in particular and America in general. "Extract from the Minutes "Charles Thomson, Secretary." By special order the same was read a second... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - 1985 - 276 Seiten
...government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established[,] to adopt such Government as shall, in the opinion of the Representatives...Constituents in particular and America in general." Congress shortly after added a preamble that instructed the colonies to suppress all authority derived... | |
 | Thomas P. Slaughter - 1986 - 306 Seiten
...government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established . . . adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives...constituents in particular and America in general." In the summer of 1776, inspired by self-interest, the Continental Congress, and the Declaration of... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 Seiten
...government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives...constituents in particular, and America in general. VIRGINIA INSTRUCTS FOR INDEPENDENCE On May 15, 1776, the Virginia Convention, composed of members of... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - 1990 - 478 Seiten
...government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such Government as shall in the opinion of the Representatives...of their Constituents in particular, and America in general."3 Three weeks later, on May 31, George Washington warned of the vastness of the task: "To... | |
 | 1990 - 540 Seiten
...sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established" they should "adopt such Government as shall, in the Opinion of the Representatives...of their Constituents in particular and America in general."5 During the ensuing decade after Independence, the cardinal question in discussions about... | |
 | Colin Bonwick - 1991 - 354 Seiten
...government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives...constituents in particular and America in general.' Such directions were all but equivalent to a declaration of independence, but five days later, on the... | |
 | Richard L. Bushman - 1992 - 298 Seiten
...government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established, to adopt such a government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives...constituents in particular, and America in general. The explosive power of the preamble lay in its evocation of the terms of the ancient covenant with... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1993 - 470 Seiten
...government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs hath been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives...constituents in particular and America in general." As a rule it was upon this advice that the colonies proceeded to frame for themselves new governments,... | |
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That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives... 
