...rg/TR/xhtml1/strict"> On the twenty fourth of May, the vote of the continental congress of the fifteenth recommending the establishment of a new government, was referred to John Morin Scott, Haring, Remsen , Lewis, Jay, Cuyler, and Broome; three days later, Remsen reported from the committee, that the right of creating civil government is and ought to be in the people, and that the old form of governmen...