ISBN: 9781130945447

RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 304 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.… Altro …

RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 304 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: . . . of marque and reprisal, coin money, define the sums necessary for the defence and welfare of the country, emit bills of credit, appoint commanders of land or naval forces, or determine the amount of the same; these functions requiring the assent of nine states in Congress. These articles, which were not to be altered unless the changes should be agreed to in Congress, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state, bound the states in a perpetual union, and provided that Canada, acceding to the confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, should 1NPEETING OF PARLIAMENT. 45 be admitted into the union; but no other colony, without the consent of nine states. These articles were to be submitted to the legislatures of the several states for consideration and approval, and their delegates being afterwards instructed to ratify them in the Congress of the United States, they became conclusive. Congress next resolved that the flag of the United States should be thirteen stripes, one for each state, and that the union thirteen stars, white, in a blue field; representing a new constellation. On the 29th of October, on account of his ill health, Mr. Hancock took leave of Congress, having presided over the deliberations of that body two years and nine months; and on the 1st of November, Henry Laurens was elected to succeed him. The people on the New Hampshire grants being left in a difficult situation by the declaration of independence, boldly declared their district an independent state, by the name of New Connecticut, or Vermont. Leaving for the present the American Congress in session, let us revert to the meeting of the British parliament on the 18th of November, 1777. The king made a speech expressive of his firm hope . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub.com<