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| Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1839 - 384 pages
...of the same year. CHAPTER XXIX. Amendments to lhe Constitution. § 562. THE conventions of several of the states having, at the time of their adopting...prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that additional declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added, congress, at the session begun and... | |
| James A. Williams - Constitutional history - 1848 - 188 pages
...hereunto subscribed our names. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President, and Deputy from Virginia. AMENDMENTS. (The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its... | |
| Saint Louis (Mo.). - 1850 - 454 pages
...By the unanimous order of the Convention: GEORGE WASHhNGTON, President. WILLIAM JACKSON, Secretary. [The conventions of a number of the States having,...declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added, Congress, at the session begun and held at the city of New York, on Wednesday, the 4th of March, 1789,... | |
| Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Alien and Sedition laws, 1798 - 1850 - 272 pages
...the time of their adopting the Constitution expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstructions or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and...the ground of public confidence in the government, witt best ensuve the beneficent ends of its institutions." Here is the most satisfactory and authentic... | |
| Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Alien and Sedition laws, 1798 - 1850 - 274 pages
...stronger. The proposition of amendment is made by Congress, is introduced in the following terms: " The conventions of a number of the states having at...Constitution expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstructions or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be... | |
| William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...the City of New York, on Wednesday, the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. The Conventions of a number of the States, having...in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution ; Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives ' It may be proper here... | |
| William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...the City of New York, on Wednesday, the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. The Conventions of a number of the States, having...in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution ; Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives * It may be proper here... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1851 - 824 pages
...amendments to the adoption of the States. It is in these words: •' The conventions of a number of States having, at the time of their adopting the Constitution,...best insure the beneficent end of its institution; therefore Congress, according to the Constitutional mode, recommended to the States to agree to, and... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...amendments, use the following language: "The conventions of a number of the states having at the time of adopting the constitution expressed a desire, in order...in the government will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution, &c. &c. 1 Tuck. Black. Comm. App. 269. ment to interfere in matters of relig1on... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1851 - 830 pages
...the amendments to the adoption of the States. It is in these words: " The conventions of a number of States having, at the time of their adopting the Constitution,...desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of j its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added ; and as extending the... | |
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