...cases for the general interests of the union, and also in those to which the states are separately incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United...interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation. VII. RESOLVED, That the legislative acts of the United States, made by virtue and in pursuance of the...

...dependences: 6. That the National Legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation ; and moreover to legislate...interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation. 7. That a National Executive be instituted; . . . and that besides a general authority to execute the...

..."Resolved, That the National Legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation ; and moreover to legislate...incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may lie interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation • to negative all laws passed by the several...

..."Resolved, That the National Legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation ; and moreover to legislate...States are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the Un ited Slates may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation ' to negative all laws...

...rights already vested in the general Congress by the Articles of Confederation, together with the right to legislate "in all cases to which the separate States...interrupted by the exercise of individual Legislation." "It can not be supposed that these descriptive phrases were to be left in their indefinite extent to...

...the size of the states' "Quotas of contribution" or population. This legislature was to have power to "legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent"; to veto "all laws passed by the several States contravening in the opinion of the National Legislature...

...The national legislature would have all of the powers of the existing Congress, as well as the power to "legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent," to veto all state laws which it thinks unconstitutional, and "to call forth the force of the Union"...

...and a bicameral legislature. He agreed that the legislature should be given a general grant of power "to legislate in all cases to which the separate States...interrupted by the exercise of individual Legislation," for that is what he had proposed in his original draft of the Articles of Confederation. But he found...

...legislative rights and powers of the Confederation Congress. The next clause, empowering the Congress "to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent," led to a brief but interesting and portentous discussion. The southern delegates were particularly...

...enumerated powers should be construed in light of Randolph's initial proposal to authorize Congress "to legislate in all cases to which the separate States...interrupted by the exercise of individual Legislation." Id. at 257-58 (oral argument of Mr. Dickinson). This argument, which had been developed in Stem, That...