 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 560 pagine
...established governments suited to the exigences of their affairs, to adopt such government as would, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,...to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general. This significant vote was soon followed by the direct proposition... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1854 - 446 pagine
...Congress had passed a resolution, recommending to the several Colonies to adopt such government as should, in the opinion of the Representatives of the people,...to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general ; and in the preamble to this Resolution, adopted five days later,... | |
 | Paul Monroe - 1911 - 784 pagine
...Continental Congress recommended that the states, where the existing governments were not sufficient, " adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of...to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular and America in general." All of the states except Connecticut and Rhode Island, which... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Service - 1970 - 84 pagine
...conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigences of their affairs have been hitherto established, to adopt such government...in the opinion of the representatives of the people beat conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular and America in general.... | |
 | Richard C. Simmons - 1981 - 452 pagine
...did Congress finally resolve that the colonies might if they felt it necessary adopt governments that "shall in the opinion of the representatives of the...to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular and of America in general . ' ' Five days later, after heated debates, it added a preamble... | |
 | Delaware. Constitutional Convention, Delaware. General Assembly. House of Assembly - 1986 - 630 pagine
...Con-ventions of the United Colonies, where no Government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such Govern-ment...to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular and America in general. "Extract from the Minutes "Charles Thomson, Secretary." By special... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - 1985 - 276 pagine
...recommending to the colonies "where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established[,] to adopt such Government...to the Happiness and Safety of their Constituents in particular and America in general." Congress shortly after added a preamble that instructed the... | |
 | Thomas P. Slaughter - 1986 - 306 pagine
..."where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established . . . adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of...to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular and America in general." In the summer of 1776, inspired by self-interest, the Continental... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 pagine
...conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established, to adopt such government...to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general. VIRGINIA INSTRUCTS FOR INDEPENDENCE On May 15, 1776, the Virginia... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - 1990 - 478 pagine
...Conventions of the United Colonies, where no Governments sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such Government...to the happiness and safety of their Constituents in particular, and America in general. Even before the adoption of this resolution, which authorized... | |
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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... 
