Exposition Of The Constitution Of The United States

Author : Joseph Story
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230221113
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book An a Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States; Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons written by Joseph Story and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. Revolutionary Government. 25. But it may be asked, and it properly belongs to this work to declare; What was the political organization, under which the Revolution was carried on and accomplished? The Colonies being, as we have seen, separate and mdependent of each other in their original establishment, and down to the eve of the Revolution, it became indispensable, in order to make their resistance to the British claims either formidable or successful, that there should be harmony and unity of operations undei some common head. Massachusetts, in 1774, recommended the assembling of a Continental Congress at Philadelphia, to be composed of delegates chosen in all the Colonies, for the purpose of deliberating on the common good, and to provide a suitable scheme of future operations. Delegates were accordingly chosen in the various Colonies, some by the legislative body, some by the popular representative branch thereof, and some by conventions of the people, according to the several means and local circumstances of each Colony. This first great Continental Congress assembled on the 4th of September, 1774, chose their own officers, and adopted certain fundamental rules to regulate their proceedings. The most important rule then adopted was, that each Colony should have one vote only in Congress, whatever might be the number of its delegates; and this became the established course throughout the whole Revolution. They adopted such other measures, as the exigency of the occasion seemed to require; and proposed another Congress, to be assembled for the like purpose, in May, . 1775, which was accordingly held. The delegates of this last Congress were chosen in the same manner as the preceding; but principally by conventions of...