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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 1 1 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 10: (search)
t or treaty, and classifies it among compacts or treaties between men, bodies of men, or countries. Writing to Count Rochambeau on January 8, 1788, he says that the proposed Constitution is to be submitted to conventions chosen by the people in the several States, and by them approved or rejected—showing what he understood by the people of the United States, who were to ordain and establish it. These same people—that is, the people of the several States—he says in a letter to Lafayette, April 28, 1788, retain everything they do not, by express terms, give up. In a letter written to Benjamin Lincoln October 26, 1788, he refers to the expectation that North Carolina will accede to the Union, and adds, Whoever shall be found to enjoy the confidence of the States so far as to be elected Vice-President, etc.—showing that in the confederated Government, as he termed it, the states were still to act independently, even in the selection of officers of the general government. He wrote to Ge
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
1783 Delegates from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York assemble at Annapolis to consider the condition of the nation, and request all the States to send delegates to a convention at Philadelphia the following May......September, 1786 James McHenry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, and Daniel Carroll, delegates from Maryland to the convention at Philadelphia, sign the Constitution of the United States......Sept. 17, 1787 Maryland adopts the Constitution......April 28, 1788 Robert H. Harrison, of Maryland, nominated associate justice of the Supreme Court......Sept. 26, 1789 John Carroll, D. D., consecrated bishop of Baltimore, with jurisdiction over all the Catholics in the United States, the first bishop consecrated in the United States (Church, Roman Catholic)......1790 The State, by law, Dec. 23, 1788, cedes to the United States such district 10 miles square Congress may select for the United States capital; the District of Columbia selected....