 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - 1842 - 266 pages
...Virginia. Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. [The following amendments were proposed at the first session of the first congress of the United States, whirh was begun and held at the city of New-York, on the 4th of March, 1789, and were adopted by the... | |
 | Henry Sherman - 1843 - 302 pages
...operation and its long duration, the question of amending it was taken up by Congress, as follows : CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday, the 4th of March, 1789. The Conventions of a number of the States having, at the time of their adopting... | |
 | Jacques-Charles Brunet - 1844 - 892 pages
...minas, рог Fr.-Xav. de GAMBOA. Madrid, 1761, In-fol. 3147 Laws of the United-States of America passed at the first session of the first congress of the United States... continued by the acts of congress to J8oi. Philadelphia, 1796-1801, 5 vol. In-8. 3148 Law of the United-States... | |
 | Obadiah Rich - 1846 - 530 pages
...March in the year 1789 and of the Independence of the united states, the 13th : Being the acts passed at the first Session of the first congress of the United States, to wit, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,... | |
 | William Hickey - 1846 - 396 pages
...purposes, as part of the said Constitution, to wit: The ten first of the preceding amendments were proposed at the first session of the first Congress, of the United States, 25 September, 1789, and were finally ratified by the constitutional number of States, on the 15th day... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1848 - 414 pages
...in the text and punctuation thereof. It appears that the first ten amendments, which were proposed at the first session of the first Congress of the United States, t were finally ratified by the constitutional number of states, on the 15th day of December, 1791 ;... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1849 - 762 pages
...certain articles proposed by Congress as amendment* to the Constitution of the United States. Whereas the Congress of the United States, begun and held at the city of New York, on Wednesday the 4th of March, 1789, resolved, that certain articles, to the number of twelve, be proposed to the... | |
 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 pages
...constitution. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. [The following amendments were proposed at the first session of the first Congress of the United States, which was begun and held at the city of New-York, on the 4th of March, 1789, and "were adopted by the... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 580 pages
...as part of the said Constitution, to wit : The ten first of the preceding amendments were proposed at the first session of the first Congress, of the United States, 25 September, 1789, and w£re finally ratified by the constitutional number of States, on the 15th... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...as part of the said Constitution, to wit : The ten first of the preceding amendments were proposed at the first session of the first Congress, of the United States, 25 September, 1789, and were finally ratified by the constitutional number of States, on the 15th day... | |
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The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should... 
