 | Charles W. Johnson (Chief Clerk of the Senate.) - 1899 - 436 páginas
...HOUSE FROM THE FIRST TO AND INCLUDING THE FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Congress of tho 1'nited States began and held in the city of New York on Wednesday, the 4th of March, 1789, pursnant to a resolution of the late Congress, made in conformity to the resolutions of the Federal... | |
 | Charles Sedgwick May - 1899 - 202 páginas
...Vermont, Nov. 3, 1791, and Virginia, Dec. 15, 1791. 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, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1905 - 372 páginas
...of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.' 1 At the first session of the First Congress, begun...These were ratified by the constitutional number of Slate Legislatures in the middle of December, 1791. Another was proposed on the 5th of March, 1794,... | |
 | Charles Zebina Lincoln - 1907 - 256 páginas
...following is the resolution proposing these amendments: CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. Begun and held at the city of New York on Wednesday, the 4th of March, 1789. The convention of a number of states having, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed... | |
 | Allen Daniel Candler - 1910 - 760 páginas
...further 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, proposed to the Legislatures of the several States twelve amendments, ten of which only were adopted."... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites, Calvin Noyes Kendall - 1912 - 572 páginas
...following explanatory preamble and resolution: — 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, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed... | |
 | Sara Redempta O'Brien - 1912 - 264 páginas
...following explanatory preamble and resolution : — 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, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed... | |
 | Hanson Hart Webster - 1919 - 156 páginas
...accompanied by the following explanatory preamble: — 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, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed... | |
 | Edmund Peyton Lowe - 1921 - 192 páginas
...following explanatory preamble and resolution: — CONGRESS or 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, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed... | |
 | United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission - 1941 - 904 páginas
...fiftieth anniversary of the First Congress of the United States under the Constitution, begun and held at the city of New York on Wednesday, the 4th of March 1789, the two Houses of Congress shall assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives at 12 o'clock... | |
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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... 
