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 страница |
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... Honorable FRANCIS DANA , ELBRIDGE GERRY , NATHANIEL GORHAM , RUFUS KING , and CALEB STRONG , Esqrs . , Greeting : - Whereas , Congress did , on the 21st day of February , A. D. 1787 , resolve , " That , in the opinion of Congress , it ...
... Honorable FRANCIS DANA , ELBRIDGE GERRY , NATHANIEL GORHAM , RUFUS KING , and CALEB STRONG , Esqrs . , Greeting : - Whereas , Congress did , on the 21st day of February , A. D. 1787 , resolve , " That , in the opinion of Congress , it ...
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... honorable body , and have directed the Sec- retary to lay it , together with the letter accompanying it , before the legislature , that measures may be adopted for calling a con- vention in this Commonwealth , to take the same into ...
... honorable body , and have directed the Sec- retary to lay it , together with the letter accompanying it , before the legislature , that measures may be adopted for calling a con- vention in this Commonwealth , to take the same into ...
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... honorable senate ; who , after debating thereon , with that freedom , good humor and candor , which forever does honor to a republican assembly , agreed to the report , with some amendments , and sent it , the day following , to the ...
... honorable senate ; who , after debating thereon , with that freedom , good humor and candor , which forever does honor to a republican assembly , agreed to the report , with some amendments , and sent it , the day following , to the ...
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... honorable legislature . It was painful for me , on a subject of such national impor- tance , to differ from the respectable members who signed the constitution ; but , conceiving as I did , that the liberties of America were not secured ...
... honorable legislature . It was painful for me , on a subject of such national impor- tance , to differ from the respectable members who signed the constitution ; but , conceiving as I did , that the liberties of America were not secured ...
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... honorable legislature and yourselves , your most obedi- ent , and very humble servant , The Hon . SAMUEL ADAMS , Esq . , E. GERRY . President of the Senate , and The Hon . JAMES WARREN , Esq . , Speaker of the House of Representatives ...
... honorable legislature and yourselves , your most obedi- ent , and very humble servant , The Hon . SAMUEL ADAMS , Esq . , E. GERRY . President of the Senate , and The Hon . JAMES WARREN , Esq . , Speaker of the House of Representatives ...
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Страница 9 - 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 16 - 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...
Страница 68 - 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 17 - Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved...
Страница 348 - I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. 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 bo otherwise.
Страница 22 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Страница 16 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the general government of the Union...
Страница 349 - Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.