...agreed to a report [ie, the revised Virginia Plan], declaring, among other things, that a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive. That the national legislature ought to be empowered to legislate in all cases to which the separate...

...Constitution. Early in the session of the Convention a resolution was offered, declaring " That a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive." This resolution was strongly opposed by a large portion of the delegates, because it proposed to establish...

...three of which read thus : "1. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this " Committee that a National Government ought " to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive. "2. Retained, That the National Legislature " ought to consist of two brunches. "8. Retained, That...

...as the United States of America, and as such then assumed its place among the nations of the world. ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive." I Elliot, Debates, p. 151. In M'Culloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, 405, 4 L. ed. 579, 601, Chief Justice...