 | Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 360 pages
...comparing this with the constitution as adopted. f'lst. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee that a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a Supreme, Legislative, Judiciary and Executive, U2d. That the Legislature ought to consist of two branches. "3d.... | |
 | W. Divoll - Citizenship - 1866 - 158 pages
...the Constitution, (we quote from " Towle-s Analysis,") On motion of Mr. Randolph it was Resolved,—" That a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a Supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary." Mr. Patterson of New Jersey offered the following substitute... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...contemplated in the existing system, he himself proposed to substitute for it the following declaration : " That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary." The substitute was intended to mark more clearly the distinction... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Secession - 1866 - 290 pages
...lays great stress on the fact, that the first resolution passed by the Convention of 1787 declared, "That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive." But the fact only shows that the Convention, when it first... | |
 | Charles Sumner - History - 1867 - 36 pages
...merely Federal," or of " treaties among the States as individual sovereignties," it was declared " that a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive and judiciary." Better words could not have been chosen to express the prevailing... | |
 | Timothy Farrar - Constitutional law - 1867 - 560 pages
...preservation of the Union." The Convention itself expressed the same idea in their first resolution thus : " That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary;" and, lastly, the people of the United States said the same... | |
 | Le Baron Bradford Prince - Constitutional history - 1867 - 180 pages
...third Resolution was as follows — brief, but all-important to our future prosperity : "Resolved, That a National Government ought to be established, consisting of a Supreme Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary." The whole subject was embraced in these few words ! The proposition... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1868 - 720 pages
...the Constitution ; let us open the Journal of the Convention itself; and we shall see that the very first resolution which the Convention adopted, was,...NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OUGHT TO BE ESTABLISHED, CONSISTING or A SUPREME LEGISLATURE, JUDICIARY AND EXECUTIVE.' " This, itself, completely negatives all idea of... | |
 | Louis John Jennings - United States - 1868 - 316 pages
...Randolph urged that a mere Federation of the States would not be sufficient, and he moved a resolution that " a national government ought to be established consisting of a supreme, legislative, and judiciary." 7 This was carried by a vote of six against one. There were others in... | |
 | William Forsyth - Constitutional law - 1869 - 618 pages
...was resolved, as the first resolution of the convention, that " it is the opinion of this Committee that a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary." Turning to the comments of the founders of the Government,... | |
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That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary. 
