 | John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 156 pages
...of 1787. On the 30th of May, 1787, the following Kesolution was before the Convention : "Resolved, That a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme judicial, legislative, and executive." "The term 'Supreme,'" says Judge Yates, "required explanation.... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 678 pages
...the nineteen resolutions before reported. The first was : " That it is the opinion of this committee that a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislation, judiciary and executive." This determination to frame a new government brought face to... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1885 - 506 pages
...entirely new federation, vested with complete powers. In other words, they resolved, on the 2gth of May, " That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme government, legislative, executive, and judiciary." With this in view, they began their work, and kept... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - 1874 - 412 pages
...Randolph, somewhat modified. It was as follows : "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." On the thirteenth of June, the Committee reported a series... | |
 | 1870 - 530 pages
...Resolutions, the first three of which rend 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. Resolved, That the National Legislature " ought to consist... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1875 - 522 pages
...plan which came to a vote, was in these words : " 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." This was on the 30th of May. The resolution was adopted by... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 362 pages
...: " the second, moved by Mr. Randolph, and recommended by the committee of the whole, " Rr.solved, That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary." There was no attempt to blink the issue raised by these rival... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1877 - 562 pages
...merely Federal," or of " treaties among the States as individual sovereignties," it was decLared " that a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary." Better words could not have been chosen to express the prevailing... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 660 pages
...a new form of government. The chief business of the convention was suggested by his proposition, " that a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary." Upon this broad foundation all future action of the convention... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 pages
...the actual formation of the. Constitution; let us open the journal of the Convention itself, and we shall see that the very first resolution which the...to establish a national government, and to banish for ever all notion of a compact between sovereign States. This resolution was adopted on the 30th... | |
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That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislature, judiciary, and executive. 
