Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Held in the Year 1788, and which Finally Ratified the Constitution of the United States. Printed by Authority of Resolves of the Legislature, 1856W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1856 - 442 pages |
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... paragraphs , until every member shall have had opportunity fully to express his sentiments on the same , after which the Convention will consider and debate at large the question , whether this Convention will adopt and ratify the ...
... paragraphs , until every member shall have had opportunity fully to express his sentiments on the same , after which the Convention will consider and debate at large the question , whether this Convention will adopt and ratify the ...
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... paragraph of the Constitution to be connected with the one immediately under consideration , that he have full liberty to take up such other clause or para- graph for that purpose , " and the question of reconsideration being put ...
... paragraph of the Constitution to be connected with the one immediately under consideration , that he have full liberty to take up such other clause or para- graph for that purpose , " and the question of reconsideration being put ...
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... paragraph which respected an equal representation of the States in the Senate , and one of my honorable colleagues observed , that this was agreed to by a committee consisting of a member from each State , and that I was one of the ...
... paragraph which respected an equal representation of the States in the Senate , and one of my honorable colleagues observed , that this was agreed to by a committee consisting of a member from each State , and that I was one of the ...
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... paragraphs , be reconsidered , and say impertinent , in him to do it ? Does that honorable gentleman think the Convention deficient in point of sagacity , to discern the probable effects and consequences of the system submitted to their ...
... paragraphs , be reconsidered , and say impertinent , in him to do it ? Does that honorable gentleman think the Convention deficient in point of sagacity , to discern the probable effects and consequences of the system submitted to their ...
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... paragraphs , had he been capable of a moment's reflec- tion ; therefore , he must have seen that by waiting until the irritation of his spirits had subsided , even to the next week , he would not have lost an oppor- tunity to have done ...
... paragraphs , had he been capable of a moment's reflec- tion ; therefore , he must have seen that by waiting until the irritation of his spirits had subsided , even to the next week , he would not have lost an oppor- tunity to have done ...
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Page 393 - For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.
Page xv - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 15 - In all our deliberations -on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of 'every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 7 - In every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vice-president. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the senate shall choose from them by ballot the vice-president.]* The congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 251 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman : likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
Page 14 - Resolved, — That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Page 14 - Convention, that as soon as the Conventions of nine States shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a Day on which Electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same, and a Day on which the Electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the Time and Place for commencing Proceedings under this Constitution. That after such Publication the Electors should be appointed, and the Senators and Representatives elected...
Page 66 - Confederation, but according to some equitable ratio of representation, namely, in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens, and inhabitants of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes, in each State.
Page 348 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Page 348 - I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men indeed as well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error. Steele, a Protestant, in a dedication tells the pope, that the only difference between our two churches in their opinions of the certainty of their doctrine, is, the Romish church is infallible, and the Church of England is never in the wrong.