...the opportunity to recommend that the states meet in Philadelphia in May 1787 to consider measures "to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." Likewise, in light of Shays' insurrection, Congress recommended to the states that they convene...

...the Second Monday of May following, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as should appear...render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United State...

...Philadelphia. In ambiguous words, the purported aim was "to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution...federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." For all of its calm tone, it was an act of audacious desperation, yet one even a reluctant,...

...the states send commissioners to a new convention at Philadelphia in 1787, to consider all matters necessary to 'render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union'. Congress tackles the instability of paper currency issued by individual states by introducing...

...recommended that the states empowered their delegates to make such changes as were in their opinion "necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." But whether this could be done within the framework of the Articles of Confederation was left...

...calling upon them to send delegates authorized to discuss not only commercial matters but all matters necessary "to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." In February 1787, Congress cautiously endorsed the call to revise the Articles. p: 247. subjecting...

...convention of all the states to meet at Philadelphia in May 1787. The convention's purpose would be "to render the constitution of the Federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union."8 The confederation congress later endorsed the Annapolis report and urged all states to attend...

...to be held the following May, this time in Philadelphia, "to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution...federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." The course of 1786 offered little comfort to those concerned with reform of the Articles of...

...second Monday in May next." That gathering should consider not only commerce but any further provisions "necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union." Recognizing that they could — at most — speak only for their five states, the commissioners...

...Philadelphia convention would be far broader than those of the Annapolis convention: to consider measures "to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the » 9 union. Now that a general convention was imminent, Jay wrote Washington with more detailed thoughts...