 | Howard Willis Preston - 1886 - 336 pages
...That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. " That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...colonies for their consideration and approbation." These resolutions were discussed June 8th and loth, when a committee was appointed to draft a declaration... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 504 pages
..."That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. "That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...colonies for their consideration and approbation." These resolutions were presented under direct instructions from the Virginia Assembly, the delegates... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 588 pages
...expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. "That aplan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the...colonies for their consideration and approbation." These resolutions were presented under direct instructions from the Virginia Assembly, the delegates... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1888 - 468 pages
..." That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. "That a plan of confederation be prepared, and transmitted to the respective colonies for their con- • sideration and approbation." unanimity They were seconded by John Adams of Massachuamong the... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - 1889 - 796 pages
..." That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. "That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...Colonies for their consideration and approbation." It will be noticed, that, in spite of " Common Sense," the local self-governments went no further than... | |
 | K. L. Armstrong - 1889 - 460 pages
...dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...colonies for their consideration and approbation." John Adams seconded these resolutions, and an animated discussion ensued. On June 8, a committee consisting... | |
 | John Fiske - 1891 - 406 pages
...That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. " That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...colonies, for their consideration and approbation." In these trying times the two greatest colonies, Virginia and Massachusetts, had been wont to go hand... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1891 - 538 pages
...Congress, "That these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent States and that a plan of Confederation be prepared and transmitted...colonies for their consideration and approbation." This resolution was adopted on the llth of June. Two committees were appointed under it, one to prepare... | |
 | John Fiske - 1891 - 404 pages
...That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. " That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...colonies, for their consideration and approbation." In these trying times the two greatest colonies, Virginia and Massachusetts, had been wont to go hand... | |
 | John Fiske - 1891 - 400 pages
...That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances. " That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...colonies, for their consideration and approbation." In these trying times the two greatest colonies, Virginia and Massachusetts, had been wont to go hand... | |
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... independent States ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown ; and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. " That it is expedient forthwith to take the... 
