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" Resolved, that each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts; that the national legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the... "
Supreme Court Reporter - Page 154
by United States. Supreme Court - 1908
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The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional ...

James Madison - 1902 - 510 pages
...Cong8 by the Confederation" was agreed to nem. con. The next, " And moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent; or in which the harmony of the US may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation," being read for a question W. Butler...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 188

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1903 - 814 pages
...residuum was left in the States. The purpose clearly was to empower Congress " to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in...interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation." 2 Madison Papers, 859. To remedy these evils the constitutional convention of 1787 was called, and...
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The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, Volume 37

Library of Congress - 1980 - 538 pages
...of the Union failing to fulfill" its constitutional duties; and "moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent; or in which the harmony of the US may be interrupted by the exercise of individual Legislation." Once the convention accepted the...
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How Federal is the Constitution?

Robert A. Goldwin - 1987 - 168 pages
...the Legislative Rights vested in Congress by the Confederation and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in...interrupted by the exercise of individual Legislation; to negative all laws passed by the several States, contravening in the opinion of the National Legislature...
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Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity

Richard R. Beeman, Stephen Botein, Edward Carlos Carter, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) - 1987 - 380 pages
...general Congress by the Articles of Confederation, together with the right to legislate "in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in...interrupted by the exercise of individual Legislation." "It can not be supposed that these descriptive phrases were to be left in their indefinite extent to...
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Dreiser: Sister Carrie; Jennie Gerhardt; Twelve Men

Theodore Dreiser - 1987 - 1168 pages
...legislative rights vested in Congress by the confederation, and moreover, to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in...interrupted, by the exercise of individual legislation, to negative all laws passed by the several States, contravening, in the opinion of the legislature...
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Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787

United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 1987 - 724 pages
...cases for the general interests of the union, and also in those to which the states are separately incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United...interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation. VII. RESOLVED, That the legislative acts of the United States, made by virtue and in pursuance of the...
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Requiem: Variations on Eighteenth-century Themes

Forrest McDonald, Ellen Shapiro McDonald - 1988 - 240 pages
...He agreed that the legislature should be given a general grant of power "to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in...interrupted by the exercise of individual Legislation," for that is what he had proposed in his original draft of the Articles of Confederation. But he found...
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Constitution Making: Conflict and Consensus in the Federal Convention Of 1787

Calvin C. Jillson - 2007 - 262 pages
...the Legislative Rights vested in Congress by the Confederation £ moreover to legislate in all. cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in...interrupted by the exercise of individual Legislation; to negative all laws passed by the several States, contravening in the opinion of the National Legislature...
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The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century, 1888-1986, Volume 2

David P. Currie - 1994 - 682 pages
...construed in light of Randolph's initial proposal to authorize Congress "to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in...interrupted by the exercise of individual Legislation." Id. at 257-58 (oral argument of Mr. Dickinson). This argument, which had been developed in Stern, That...
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