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... Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 80by Daniel Webster - 1835 - 4 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert W. Lincoln - 1842 - 610 pages
...independence, recommending to the colonies "to adopt such a government as would, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents and of America." This proposition was adopted on the tenth. On the same day, the Massachusetts House... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1842 - 456 pages
...the 6th of May, 1776, John Adams moved " to adopt such a government as would, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents, and of America ;" and the resolution was adopted, after a strong opposition, on the 15th of the same... | |
| Joseph Blunt - 1843 - 290 pages
...been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representations of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety...constituents in particular, and America in general." This resolution was intended as a preliminary to the declaration of independence, which it was then determined... | |
| Joseph Blunt - 1843 - 300 pages
...recommended to the people of the several colonies " to adopt such government as should in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the...constituents in particular, and America in general."* Pursuant to that recommendation, the local conventions proceeded to prepare constitutions for each... | |
| Sherman Day - 1843 - 766 pages
...their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinions of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the...constituents in particular, and America in general." The whigs were determined upon a change of government in Pennsylvania in pursuance of this resolve.... | |
| Sherman Day - 1843 - 754 pages
...Williams, and Daniel Broadhead; and one battalion of infantry under Col. Samuel Atlee. preservatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety...constituents in particular, and America in general." The whigs were determined upon a change of government in Pennsylvania in pursuance of this resolve.... | |
| Henry St. George Tucker - 1843 - 254 pages
...of their affairs had been established, to adopt such a government as should, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the...and safety of their constituents in particular, and of America in general.' The preamble to this resolution was not adopted till the 15th May. (1 Elliott's... | |
| John Quincy Adams - 1843 - 80 pages
...advised by the Revolutionary Congress, " to adopt such a government as should, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the...and safety of their constituents in particular, and of America in general," the people of the State therefore, known as the colony of Massachusetts Bay,... | |
| Henry St. George Tucker - 1843 - 256 pages
...exigencies, had been established, to adopt such government, as in the opinion of the representatives should best conduce to the happiness and safety of their...constituents in particular, and America in general, and adopted a preamble, which stated, " that the exercise of every kind of authority under the crown... | |
| Joseph Blunt - 1843 - 288 pages
...government as shall, in the opinion of 182 the representations of the people, best conduce to the happines* and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general." This resolution was intended as a preliminary to the declaration of independence, which it was then determined... | |
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