...to send commissioners to Annapolis, to consider how far a uniform system of commercial regulations might be necessary to the common interest and permanent harmony of the several States. So strong was the sense of independence in the several States, and so jealous were they of maintaining...

..._n Act relative to this great Object, as ivhen unanimously ratified by them, [italics in original], would enable the United States in Congress assembled effectually to provide for the same."2 Delaware and New Jersey had given much tihe same instructions. From start to finish the new...

...operation on the citizen, for the purpose of executing its general their commercial relations and other important matters might be necessary to the common...interest and permanent harmony of the several states." The conference noted the phrase "other important matters" and considered it an improvement on the original...

...Convention, empowering them to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations and other important matters might be necessary to the common...interest and permanent harmony of the several States, and these instructions, through the forethought of Hamilton and his associates at Annapolis, became the...

...instructed her delegates "to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial relations and other important matters might be necessary to the common...interest and permanent harmony of the several States". The conference noted the phrase "other important matters" and considered it an improvement on the original...

...her delegates "to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial relations and other lmportant matters might be necessary to the common interest and permanent harmony of the several States". The conference noted the phrase "other important matters" and considered it an improvement on the original...

...and to report to the several states such an Act ' relative to this great object as, when unanimously ratified ' by them, would enable the United States...Congress ' assembled effectually to provide for the same." l New Jersey, he pointed out, had given a more liberal commission to her delegates, empowering...

...and to report to the several states such an act relative to this great object as, when unanimously ratified by them, would enable the United States in...Congress assembled effectually to provide for the same." That the state of Delaware had given similar powers to their commissioners, with this difference...

.../{ consider how far an unifornyBystem in their commercial regulations anfL. othvr jjfipnrtanf, matlj might be necessary to the common interest and permanent harmony of the several States." This, the commissioners present thought, " was an improvement on the original plan, and will deserve...

...to this convention "to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations and other important matters might be necessary to the common interest and permanent harmony of the States." This important advance upon the Virginia proposition was valuable as a suggestion, but as...