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1789 AD (search for this): chapter 2.13
est and in behalf of the General Assembly of that State, addressed to the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the eleven United States of America in Congress assembled, I take the earliest opportunity of laying a copy of it before you. (Signed) George Washington. Some extracts from the communication American State Papers, Volume I, miscellaneous. referred to are annexed: State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, In General Assembly, September Session, 1789. To the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the eleven . United States of America in Congress assembled: The critical situation in which the people of this State are placed engages us to make these assurances, on their behalf, of their attachment and friendship to their sister States, and of their disposition to cultivate mutual harmony and friendly intercourse. They know themselves to be a handful, comparatively viewed, and, although they now stand as it were al
August 2nd, 1788 AD (search for this): chapter 2.13
on was made for putting the new Constitution in operation. This was effected on March 4, 1789, when the government was organized, with George Washington as President, and John Adams, Vice-President; the Senators and Representatives elected by the states which had acceded to the Constitution organizing themselves as a Congress. Meantime two states were standing, as we have seen, unquestioned and unmolested, in an attitude of absolute independence. The convention of North Carolina, on August 2, 1788, had rejected the proposed Constitution, or, more properly speaking, had withheld her ratification until action could be taken upon the subject matter of the following resolution adopted by her convention: Resolved, That a declaration of rights, asserting and securing from encroachment the great principles of civil and religious liberty, and the unalienable rights of the people, together with amendments to the most ambiguous and exceptionable parts of the said Constitution of governm
December 18th (search for this): chapter 2.13
hese words: By these presents, do, in the name and by the authority of the same people, and for ourselves, assent to and ratify the foregoing Constitution for the United States of America. In New Jersey the ratification, which took place on December 18, was unanimous. This is no less significant and instructive than the unanimity of Delaware, from the fact that the New Jersey delegation, in the convention that framed the Constitution, had taken the lead in behalf of the federal, or state riproposed Constitution, do hereby, for and on behalf of the people of the said State of New Jersey, agree to, ratify, and confirm the same, and every part thereof. Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the members present, this 18th day of December, A. D. 1787. Georgia next, and also unanimously, on January 2, 1788, declared, through the delegates of the State of Georgia, in convention met, pursuant to the provisions of the [act of the] Legislature aforesaid, . . . in virtue of t
June 21st (search for this): chapter 2.13
ents, and for greater assurance accompanied her ordinance of ratification with the following distinct assertion of the principle afterward embodied in the tenth amendment: This Convention doth also declare that no section or paragraph of the said Constitution warrants a construction that the States do not retain every power not expressly relinquished by them and vested in the General Government of the Union. The delegates of the people of the State of New Hampshire, in convention on June 21, in the name and behalf of the people of the State of New Hampshire, declared their approval and adoption of the Constitution. In this state, also, the opposition was formidable (the final vote being 57 to 46), and, as in South Carolina, it was explicitly declared that all powers not expressly and particularly delegated by the aforesaid Constitution are reserved to the several States, to be by them exercised. The debates in the Virginia convention were long and animated. Some of the mo
November 21st, 1789 AD (search for this): chapter 2.13
the ratification of the Constitution aforesaid on the part of the State of North Carolina. More than a year afterward, when the newly organized government had been in operation for nearly nine months, and when—although no convention of the states had been called to revise the Constitution— North Carolina had good reason to feel assured that the most important provisions of her proposed amendments and declaration of rights would be adopted, she acceded to the amendment compact. On November 21, 1789, her convention agreed, in behalf of the freemen, citizens, and inhabitants of the State of North Carolina, to adopt and ratify the Constitution. In Rhode Island the proposed Constitution was at first submitted to a direct vote of the people, who rejected it by an overwhelming majority. Subsequently—that is, on May 29, 1790, when the reorganized government had been in operation for nearly fifteen months, and when it had become reasonably certain that the amendments thought necessa<
March 4th, 1789 AD (search for this): chapter 2.13
at those clauses in the said Constitution which declare that Congress shall not have or exercise certain powers, do not imply that Congress is entitled to any powers not given by the said Constitution, but such clauses are to be construed either as exceptions to certain specified powers or as inserted for greater caution. The acceptance of these eleven states having been signified to the Congress, provision was made for putting the new Constitution in operation. This was effected on March 4, 1789, when the government was organized, with George Washington as President, and John Adams, Vice-President; the Senators and Representatives elected by the states which had acceded to the Constitution organizing themselves as a Congress. Meantime two states were standing, as we have seen, unquestioned and unmolested, in an attitude of absolute independence. The convention of North Carolina, on August 2, 1788, had rejected the proposed Constitution, or, more properly speaking, had withhe
September 26th, 1789 AD (search for this): chapter 2.13
tter was never questioned. And then it is to be noted, on their part, that, like the house of Judah, they refrained from any attempt to force the seceding sisters to return. As illustrative of the relations existing during this period between the United States and Rhode Island, it may not be uninstructive to refer to a letter sent by the government of the latter to the President and Congress, and transmitted by the President to the Senate, with the following note: United States, September 26, 1789. gentlemen of the Senate: Having yesterday received a letter written in this month by the Governor of Rhode Island, at the request and in behalf of the General Assembly of that State, addressed to the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the eleven United States of America in Congress assembled, I take the earliest opportunity of laying a copy of it before you. (Signed) George Washington. Some extracts from the communication American State Papers, Volum
January 9th (search for this): chapter 2.13
sent of the members present, this 18th day of December, A. D. 1787. Georgia next, and also unanimously, on January 2, 1788, declared, through the delegates of the State of Georgia, in convention met, pursuant to the provisions of the [act of the] Legislature aforesaid, . . . in virtue of the powers and authority given us [them] by the people of the said State, for that purpose, that they did fully and entirely assent to, ratify, and adopt the said Constitution. Connecticut (on the 9th of January) declares her assent with equal distinction of assertion as to the source of the authority: In the name of the people of the State of Connecticut, we, the delegates of the people of the said State, in General Convention assembled, pursuant to an act of the Legislature in October last . . . . do assent to, ratify, and adopt the Constitution reported by the Convention of delegates in Philadelphia. In Massachusetts there was a sharp contest. The people of that state were then—as for a l
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