 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 686 pages
...preservation of the powers and rights of sovereignty not surrendered by the States, a number of States, , if there be any, between the opinions of the Senator...and the official recognition of them by the Presi that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added. Accordingly, the first Congress held... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pages
...3, p. 207 to 210. — Congress, in the preamble to these amendments, use the following language: " The conventions of a number of the states having at the time of adopting the constitution expressed a desire, in order to prevent misVOL. III. 91 722 CONSTITUTION... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1851 - 822 pages
...the amendments to the adoption of the States. It is in these words : " The conventions of a number of States having, at the time of their adopting the Constitution,...in the Government will best insure the beneficent end of its institution ; therefore Congress, according to the Constitutional mode, recommended to the... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 680 pages
...stronger. The proposition of amendments made by Congress is introduced in the following terms: — " The conventions of a number of the states having,...government will best insure the beneficent ends of its institutions." Here is the most satisfactory and authentic proof that the several amendments proposed... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1837 - 516 pages
...President, by unanimous order of the convention. His excellency the PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. AMENDMENTS. [The conventions of a number of the states having,...declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added, congress, at the session begun and held at the city of New York, on Wednesday, the 4th of March, 1789.... | |
 | Saint Louis (Mo.). - 1838 - 284 pages
...unanimous order of the convention. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President. His excellency the president of congress. (The conventions of a number of the states having,...to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, »hat further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added, congress, at the session begun and... | |
 | 1839 - 397 pages
...adoption to history, its position in the Constituthe States. It is this : ' The Convention of a iilun the Constitution, expressed a desire, in. order to...best insure the beneficent ends of its institution; Resolved," &c. tion, the history and position of other o f the i P roy i s i° ns > the specific grants... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1839 - 476 pages
...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,...prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that farther declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added ; and as extending the ground of public... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - 1924 - 1170 pages
...THE UNITED STATES. Begun and held at the city of New York, on Wednesday, the 4th day of March, 1789. The conventions of a number of the states having,...in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. 39 powere, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1839 - 472 pages
...of the same year. CHAPTER XXIX. Amendments to the Constitution. § 562. THE conventions of several of the states having, at the time of their adopting...prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that additional declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added, congress, at the session begun and... | |
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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 be added... 
