 | Benjamin Lewis Price - 1999 - 264 pages
...American people. The committee resolved that governments be established in the colonies "as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,...to the happiness and safety of their constituents, and America in general."7 By the spring of 1776 popular support for breaking ties with Great Britain... | |
 | Peter McNamara - 1999 - 278 pages
...that recommended to the various colonial assemblies that they construct new governments that would "best conduce to the happiness and Safety of their...Constituents in particular and America in General." Adams always thought this resolution "an Epocha, a decisive Event" in the American Revolution.55 And,... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 1983 - 308 pages
...the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,...constituents in particular, and America in generaL" 39. In a letter to Jay, President of Congress, August 5, 1779, in ChiKenden Papers, 470-72. 40. Ethan... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - 2001 - 406 pages
...to the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established to adopt such Government as shall, in the Opinion of the Representatives of the People,...Constituents in particular and America in general." The preamble, added on May 15, dismissed all hope of reconciliation and declared that now it was "necessary... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1870 - 900 pages
...their affairs hath hitherto been established, to adopt such a government as shall, in the opinions of the representatives of the people, best conduce...constituents in particular, and America in general." A committee of three, of which John Adams was chairman, was appointed to prepare a preamble to this... | |
 | John Slade - 2002 - 740 pages
...respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies ... to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,...constituents in particular and America in general." Congress was thus asking the thirteen colonial assemblies to replace the last remnants of British government... | |
 | William Howard Adams - 2008 - 361 pages
...Congress had advised New York and the other colonies to immediately "adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the Representatives of the People...to the happiness and safety of their constituents." A few days later, Philadelphia made clear that the next step — Adams called it the last — would... | |
 | Merrill Jensen - 2004 - 754 pages
...the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,...constituents in particular, and America in general." 58 It was passed with "remarkable unanimity," in part because John Dickinson agreed to it. John Adams... | |
 | Mary Mostert - 2004 - 230 pages
...United Colonies, where no government had... hitherto been established to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,...constituents in particular and America in general." After two days debate, the resolution passed, but a preamble had not yet been written. The conservatives... | |
 | Robert E. Shalhope - 2004 - 220 pages
...year. Finally, on 10 May, 1776 they recommended that the colonies "adopt such Government as shall, in the Opinion of the Representatives of the People,...of their Constituents in particular and America in general."1 On 7 June, Richard Henry Lee moved that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to... | |
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That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives... 
