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" That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives... "
History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania - Page 27
by Henry Wilson Storey - 1907
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History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania, with ...

Elk County (Pa.) - 1800 - 1046 pages
...Accordingly, congress recommended that the several colonies should adopt such government as should "best conduce to the happiness and safety of their...constituents in particular and America in general. ' ' This meant that each colony should set up a government for itself, independent of the crown. Accordingly,...
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The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the ..., Volume 2

William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 478 pages
...government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs hath been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives...the happiness and safety of their constituents in par-* ticular, and America in, general." Th« following preamble was prepared and agreed to, five davs...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 2

John Marshall - Presidents - 1804 - 648 pages
...government sufficient for the exigencies of their affairs hath been already established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives...constituents in particular, and America in general." The provincial assemblies and conventions acted on this recommendation, and governments were generally...
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The life of George Washington, Volume 2; Volume 272

John Marshall - 1804 - 562 pages
...the exigencies of their aftairs hath been already established, to adopt such government as shall, iu the opinion of the representatives of the people,...constituents in particular, and America in general." The Provincial Assemblies and Conventions acted on this recommendation, and governments were generally...
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The Life of George Washington,: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 2

John Marshall - Generals - 1804 - 654 pages
...exigencies of their affairs hath been already established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opjnion of the representatives of the people, best conduce...constituents in particular, and America in general." CHAP. vi. because in those colonies, the executive as wel! i 776. as the whole legislature had always...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 2

1805 - 618 pages
...government sufficient for the exigencies of their affairs hath been already established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives...constituents in particular, and America in general." The provincial assemblies and conventions acted on this recommendation, and governments were generally...
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The History of Georgia: Containing Brief Sketches of the Most ..., Volume 2

Hugh McCall - Georgia - 1816 - 452 pages
...States, Where no government equal to the exigencies of their affairs, has been established, to adopt such government, as shall in the opinion of the representatives...constituents in particular, and America in general. And whereas, the honourable the congress of the United- States has deceived no answer whatever to the...
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The History of Virginia: From Its First Settlement to the Present Day, Volume 4

John Burk - Virginia - 1816 - 574 pages
...their CHAP. affairs had been tbeitftofore established to fix upon such VIII. Oovernment, as should, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safe- — — — — tv of iheir Constituents, in particular, ami America iii ^general." In the mean...
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Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volume 7

John Sanderson - 1827 - 374 pages
...&c. The resolution concludes with a recommendation to the several colonies to "adopt such governments as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people best rondure to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular ;vud America in general." This...
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Reports of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of 1821 Assembled ...

New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 722 pages
...government as shall, in the opinion of the represenim"m..E° ' ta'ives of the people, best cominee to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general." " \ MI \viii.in: is doubts have arisen, whether this congress are invested with sufficient power and...
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