...They recommended that the Constitution should be submitted to a convention of Delegates to be chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation...its legislature, for their assent and ratification. Such a convention being called by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, tfte people of Luztrne * county...

...Sovereignties, did on the 17th day of September, 1787,-".Re-*' solve, that the preceeding Constitution belaid before '** the United States in Congress assembled,...it is the opinion of this Convention that it should af*' terwards be submitted to a Convention of delegates ." chosen in each state, by the people thereof,...

...and ratifying it. They carried into effect the resolution of the convention of 1787, which ran thus: "Resolved, That the preceding constitution be laid...its Legislature, for their assent and ratification," &c. In every State where it was ratified, it was done by the people, or by delegates specially elected...

...directed it to be " laid before the United States in congress assembled," and declared their opinion, " that it should afterwards be submitted to a convention...chosen in each state by the people thereof, under a recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification;" and that each convention,...

...the United States, with a request, that it might ' be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation...its legislature, for their assent and ratification.' This mode of proceeding was adopted ; and by the convention, by congress, and by the state legislatures,...

...reported to the former Congress, to be by them " submitted to a Gpnvention of delegates to he chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation...its Legislature, for their assent and ratification." 858. This bourse of proceeding was adopted, and the proposed form of Government was accordingly submitted...

...of the United States with a request, that it might 'be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each State, by the people thereof, under the recommendation...its Legislature for their assent and ratification.' This mode of proceeding was adopted; and by the convention, by Congress, and by the State Legislatures,...

...New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia : Resolved, That the preceding Constitution be laid...United States, in Congress assembled, and that it ia the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates,...

...the United States, with a request that it might ' be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their ratification.' This mode of proceeding wag adopted, and by the convention, by Congress, and by the...

...the United States, with a. request that it might ' be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their ratification.' This mode of proceeding was adopted, and by the convention, by Congress, and by the...