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" That it is indispensable to the happiness of the individual States, that there should be lodged somewhere a supreme power to regulate and govern the general concerns of the confederated republic, without which the Union cannot be of long duration. "
The Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military, and Literary Journal - Page 127
1783
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History of the United States

Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1921 - 712 pages
...governors, that the duration of the union would be short unless there was lodged somewhere a supreme power " to regulate and govern the general concerns of the confederated republic." The governor of Massachusetts, disturbed by the growth of discontent all about him, suggested to the...
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The Constitution of the United States, Volume 1, Issue 1

United States - Constitutional history - 1896 - 448 pages
...indispensable to the happiness of the individual States, that there should be lodged somewhere a supreme power to regulate and govern the general concerns...which the Union cannot be of long duration. That there must be a faithful and pointed compliance, on the part of every State, with the late proposals and...
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Readings in American Democracy

Thames Williamson - Social history - 1922 - 576 pages
...indispensable to the happiness of the individual states, that there should be lodged somewhere a supreme power to regulate and govern the general concerns...without which the Union cannot be of long duration. . . . 17. Hamilton summarizes the defects of the Confederation ' Washington's belief that the Articles...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 24

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - Civilization - 1925 - 464 pages
...Ford (ed.), Washington't Works, X, 254-265. states, that there should be lodged somewhere a supreme power to regulate and govern the general concerns...which the Union cannot be of long duration. That there must be a faithful and appointed compliance, on the part of every state, with the late proposals and...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 4

John Marshall - Presidents - 1926 - 552 pages
...indispensable to the happiness of the individual states, that there should be lodged somewhere a supreme power to regulate and govern the general concerns...the confederated republic, without which the union can not be of long duration: that there must be a faithful and pointed compliance, on the part of every...
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The General Welfare Clause: A Study of the Power of Congress Under the ...

James Francis Lawson - Constitutional history - 1926 - 408 pages
...to the governors of the several states, in which he urged that there "be lodged somewhere a supreme power to regulate and govern the general concerns of the Confederated Republic."" He wrote to Dr. Wm. Gordon:6 We are known by no other character among the nations than as the United...
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The Life of Thomas Johnson

Edward Schley Delaplaine - Maryland - 1927 - 564 pages
...happiness of the individual States," he declared, "that there should be lodged somewhere a supreme power to regulate and govern the general concerns...without which the Union cannot be of long duration, and everything must very rapidly tend to anarchy and confusion." * The General's letter to the Governors...
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The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript ..., Volume 26

George Washington - Government publications - 1783 - 618 pages
...indispensable to the happiness of the individual States, that there should be lodged somewhere, a Supreme Power to regulate and govern the general concerns...which the Union cannot be of long duration. That there must be a faithfull and pointed compliance on the part of every State, with the late proposals and...
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Honor to George Washington and Reading about George Washington: Pamphlets 1 ...

Albert Bushnell Hart - 1932 - 220 pages
...indispensable to the happiness of the individual States, that there should be lodged somewhere a supreme power to regulate and govern the general concerns...which the Union cannot be of long duration. That there must be a faithful and pointed compliance, on the part of every State, with the late proposals and...
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Maryland: the Federalist Years

L. Marx Renzulli - History - 1973 - 376 pages
...... the revolutionary struggle,"154 while as early as 1783 Washington warned that without "a supreme power to regulate and govern the general concerns of the Confederated Republic . . . the Union cannot be of long duration, and everything must very rapidly tend to anarchy and confusion."155...
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