Category: History - American
CONFLICT BETWEEN THE NATIONAL AND FEDERAL SYSTEMS.--DIVISION OF THE LEGISLATURE INTO TWO CHAMBERS.--DISAGREEMENT OF THE STATES ON THE NATURE OF REPRESENTATION IN THE TWO BRANCHES.--THREATENED DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION.
CONFLICT BETWEEN THE NATIONAL AND FEDERAL SYSTEMS.--DIVISION OF THE LEGISLATURE INTO TWO CHAMBERS.--DISAGREEMENT OF THE STATES ON THE NATURE OF REPRESENTATION IN THE TWO BRANCHE...
8. CHAPTER VII.FIRST GRAND COMPROMISES OF THE CONSTITUTION.--POPULATION OF THE STATES ADOPTED AS THE BASIS OF REPRESENTATION IN THE HOUSE.--RULE FOR COMPUTING THE SLAVES.--EQUALITY OF REPRESEN...
9. CHAPTER VIII.POWERS OF LEGISLATION.--CONSTITUTION AND CHOICE OF THE EXECUTIVE.--CONSTITUTION OF THE JUDICIARY.--ADMISSION OF NEW STATES.--COMPLETION OF THE ENGAGEMENTS OF CONGRESS.--GUARANTY...
10. CHAPTER IX.11. CHAPTER X.12. CHAPTER XI.13. CHAPTER XII.14. CHAPTER XIII.15. CHAPTER XIV.16. CHAPTER XV.17. CHAPTER XVI.REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, CONTINUED.--GUARANTY OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT AND INTERNAL TRANQUILLITY.--OATH TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION.--MODE OF AMENDMENT.--RATIFICATION...
18. CHAPTER I.GENERAL RECEPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION.--HOPES OF A REUNION WITH GREAT BRITAIN.--ACTION OF THE CONGRESS.--STATE OF FEELING IN MASSACHUSETTS, NEW YORK, VIRGINIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, M...
19. CHAPTER II.RATIFICATIONS OF DELAWARE, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, GEORGIA, AND CONNECTICUT, WITHOUT OBJECTION.--CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1787.--BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1788.--RATIFICATION OF MASSACHU...
20. CHAPTER III.21. CHAPTER IV.22. CHAPTER I.After long wanderings through the struggles, the errors, and the disappointments of the earlier years of our constitutional history, I now come to consider that memorable assemb...
23. Chapter II. p. 48; _ante_, Vol. I. p. 213, note 2.24. CHAPTER II.The Convention having been organized, Governor Randolph of Virginia[10] submitted a series of resolutions, embracing the principal changes that ought to be proposed in the struc...
25. CHAPTER III.The construction of a national executive, although not surrounded by so many inherent practical difficulties as the formation of the legislative department, was likely to give r...
26. CHAPTER IV.Having settled a general plan for the organization of the three great departments of government, the committee next proceeded to provide for certain other objects of primary imp...
27. CHAPTER V.The nature of the plan of government thus proposed--called generally in the proceedings of the Convention the Virginia plan--may be perceived from the descriptions that have now...
28. CHAPTER VI.CONFLICT BETWEEN THE NATIONAL AND FEDERAL SYSTEMS.--DIVISION OF THE LEGISLATURE INTO TWO CHAMBERS.--DISAGREEMENT OF THE STATES ON THE NATURE OF REPRESENTATION IN THE TWO BRANCHE...
29. Chapter VIII., on the English Constitution, in Hallam's Middle Ages,[81] The States opposed to an equality of suffrage in the first branch were Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, 6; those in favor...
30. CHAPTER VII.FIRST GRAND COMPROMISES OF THE CONSTITUTION.--POPULATION OF THE STATES ADOPTED AS THE BASIS OF REPRESENTATION IN THE HOUSE.--RULE FOR COMPUTING THE SLAVES.--EQUALITY OF REPRESEN...
31. CHAPTER VIII.POWERS OF LEGISLATION.--CONSTITUTION AND CHOICE OF THE EXECUTIVE.--CONSTITUTION OF THE JUDICIARY.--ADMISSION OF NEW STATES.--COMPLETION OF THE ENGAGEMENTS OF CONGRESS.--GUARANTY...
32. CHAPTER IX.Having now reached that stage in the process of framing the Constitution at which certain principles were confided to a committee of detail, the reader will now have an opportun...
33. CHAPTER XIn the examination which has thus far been made of the process of forming the Constitution, the reader will have noticed the absence of any express provisions concerning the reg...
34. CHAPTER XI.In the last preceding chapter, the reader has traced the origin of the revenue and commercial powers, and of certain restrictions applied to them in the progress of those great...
35. CHAPTER XII.Among the resolutions sent to the committee, there were four which had reference to the supremacy of the government of the United States. They declared that it ought to consist...
36. CHAPTER XIII.In describing the manner in which the Constitution and powers of the Senate were finally arranged, I have already had occasion to state, that, after the report of the committee...
37. CHAPTER XIV.The distribution of the powers of government, when its subjects are to sustain no relation to any other sovereignty than that whose fundamental laws it is proposed to ordain, is...
38. CHAPTER XV.We now come to a class of provisions designed to place the people of the separate States in more intimate relations with each other, by removing, in some degree, the consequence...
39. CHAPTER XVI.REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, CONCLUDED.--GUARANTY OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT AND INTERNAL TRANQUILLITY.--OATH TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION.--MODE OF AMENDMENT.--RATIFICATION...
40. CHAPTER I.GENERAL RECEPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION.--HOPES OF A REUNION WITH GREAT BRITAIN.--ACTION OF THE CONGRESS.--STATE OF FEELING IN MASSACHUSETTS, NEW YORK, VIRGINIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, M...
41. CHAPTER II.RATIFICATIONS OF DELAWARE, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, GEORGIA, AND CONNECTICUT, WITHOUT OBJECTION.--CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1787.--BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1788.--RATIFICATION OF MASSACHU...
42. CHAPTER IIISouth Carolina was the eighth State that had ratified the Constitution, and one other only was required for its inauguration. In this posture of affairs the month of May in the...
43. CHAPTER IV.Thus had eleven States, at the end of July, 1788, unconditionally adopted the Constitution; five of them proposing amendments for the consideration of the first Congress that wo...