Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Held in the Year 1788, and which Finally Ratified the Constitution of the United States. Printed by Authority of Resolves of the Legislature, 1856 |
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... considerations , the Committee proposed the fol- lowing additional Resolve , which , also , passed both houses with the same unanimity as the former , and was approved by the Governor , April 8 , 1856 : - Resolved , That in the reprint ...
... considerations , the Committee proposed the fol- lowing additional Resolve , which , also , passed both houses with the same unanimity as the former , and was approved by the Governor , April 8 , 1856 : - Resolved , That in the reprint ...
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... consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient ; he may , on extraordinary occasions , convene both houses , or either of them , and in case of disagreement between them , with respect to the time of adjournment ...
... consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient ; he may , on extraordinary occasions , convene both houses , or either of them , and in case of disagreement between them , with respect to the time of adjournment ...
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... consideration of the United States , in congress assembled , that constitution which has appeared to us the most advisable . The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war , peace and treaties , that ...
... consideration of the United States , in congress assembled , that constitution which has appeared to us the most advisable . The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war , peace and treaties , that ...
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... consideration , seriously and deeply impressed on our minds , led each state in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the constitution which we now present ...
... consideration , seriously and deeply impressed on our minds , led each state in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the constitution which we now present ...
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... consideration of the neces- sity of sufficient time being allowed to the people to consider and digest a system of government with which the prosperity and happiness of the people of this country is so ultimately con- nected . The ...
... consideration of the neces- sity of sufficient time being allowed to the people to consider and digest a system of government with which the prosperity and happiness of the people of this country is so ultimately con- nected . The ...
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Page 9 - In every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vicepresident. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the senate shall choose from them by ballot the vice-president.] The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 17 - That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every state is not perhaps to be expected ; but each will doubtless consider, that had her interest been alone consulted, the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others ; that it is liable to as few exceptions as could reasonably have been expected, we hope and believe ; that it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom and happiness, is our most ardent wish...
Page 353 - For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Page 25 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 352 - I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men indeed as well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error. Steele, a Protestant, in a dedication tells the pope, that the only difference between our two churches in their opinions of the certainty of their doctrine, is, the Romish church is infallible, and the Church of England is never in the wrong.
Page 16 - That it is the opinion of this Convention that, as soon as the conventions of nine States shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same...
Page 415 - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Page 332 - Chorus — Yankee Doodle, keep it up, Yankee Doodle, dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy.
Page 353 - I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered ; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
Page 22 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.