Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . ths previous. The plan in question proposed the form-ation of a general government, consti-tuted as follows: The national legislatureto consist of two branches—the membersof the first branch
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . ths previous. The plan in question proposed the form-ation of a general government, consti-tuted as follows: The national legislatureto consist of two branches—the membersof the first branch to be elected by thepeople of the several states, and themembers of the second branch to be electedby the first branch, out of a proper numbernominated by the state legislatures; th^national legislature to have a negative on 136 OUR FIRST CENTURY.—1776-1876. all tlie .state laws contravening tlio union, ami to have power to legislate inall cases where tlie states were incompe-tent ; the riglit of suffrage in the legisla^ture to be proportioned to the quota ofcontribution, or to the number of free in-liabitants; a national executive to bechosen by the national legislature; a na-tional judiciary, to consist of one or moresu[)reme triliunals and inferior ones, thejudges to be chosen by the national legis-lature ; the executive, and a convenientnumber of the national judiciary, to com-. \KLi:« PLEADING FOB PACIFICATION. pose a council f revision to examine everyact of the national legislature before itshould operate, and every act of a particu-lar legislature before a negative thereonshould lie tinal; i)rovision to be made forthe a(lniissi(>i\ of new states to the Union ;a republican form of government to beadministercil in each state; provision tobe made for amendments to the articles ofunion; the legislative, executive, and judi-ciary powers, or officials, of the severalstates, to be bound by oath to support thearticles of union. A good degree of favor w
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