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See also:RANDOLPH, See also:EDMUND [JENNINGS] (1753–1813) , See also:American statesman, was See also:born on the loth of See also:August 1753, at Tazewell See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:Williamsburg, See also:Virginia, the See also:family seat of his grandfather, See also:Sir See also:John Randolph (1693–1737), and his See also:father, John Randolph (1727–84), who (like his See also:uncle Peyton Randolph) were See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's attorneys for Virginia. Edmund graduated at the See also:College of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William and See also:Mary, and studied See also:law with his father, who See also:felt See also:bound by his See also:oath to the king .and went to See also:England in 1775. In August–See also:October 1775 Edmund was aide-de-See also:camp to See also:General See also:Washington. In 1776 he was a member of the Virginia See also:Convention, and was on its See also:committee to draft a constitution. In the same See also:year he became the first See also:attorney-general of the See also:state (serving until 1786). He served in the See also:Continental See also:Congress in 1779 and again in 178o-82. He had a large private practice, including much legal business for General Washington. In 1786 he was a delegate to the " See also:Annapolis convention," and in 1787–88 was See also:governor of Virginia. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and on the 29th of May presented the " Virginia See also:plan" (sometimes called the " Randolph plan" ).1 In the Convention Randolph advocated a strongly centralized See also:government, the See also:prohibition of the importation of slaves, and a plural executive, suggesting that there should be three executives from different parts of the See also:country, and refused to sign the constitution because too much See also:power over See also:commerce was granted to a -See also:mere See also:majority in Congress, and because no See also:provision was made for a second convention to See also:act after the See also:present See also:instrument had been referred to the states. In October 1787 he published an attack on the Constitution; but in the Virginia convention he urged its ratification, arguing that it was too See also:late to See also:attempt to amend it without endangering the See also:Union, and thinking that Virginia's assent would be that of the necessary ninth state. In 1788 he refused re-See also:election as governor, and entered the See also:House of Delegates to See also:work on the revision and codification of the state See also:laws (published in 1794). In See also:September 1789 he was appointed by See also:President Washington first attorney-general of the See also:United States. He worked for a revision of See also:Ellsworth's judiciary act of 1789, and especially to relieve justices of the supreme See also:court
' The plan was not drafted by Randolph, but he presented it because he was governor. It called for a legislature of two branches, one chosen by the See also:people and based on See also:free See also:population (or on See also:wealth) and the other chosen by the first out of candidates nominated by the state legislatures; a majority See also:vote only was required in each house; and Congress was to have a negative on such state legislation as seemed to the Congress to contravene the articles of the Union. There was to be, under this plan, an executive chosen by the See also:national legislature, to be ineligible for a second See also:term, to have general authority to execute the national laws and to have the executive rights vested in Congress by the See also:Confederation; and the executive with a convenient number of the national judiciary was to compose a See also:Council of Revision, with a See also:veto power on acts of the national legislature and on the national legislature's vetoes of acts of state legislatures—but the national legislature might pass bills (or vetoes of state legislation) over the See also:action of the Council of Revision. The plan provided for a Federal judiciary, the See also:judges to be appointed by the national legislature, to hold See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office during See also:good behaviour, and to have See also:jurisdiction over cases in See also:admiralty and cases in which foreigners or citizens of different states were parties. The Virginia plan was opposed by the smaller states, See also:Connecticut, New See also:Jersey, See also:Delaware and See also:Maryland, which demanded equal See also:representation in the legislature. It was too radically different from the Articles of Confederation. A draft of a constitution in Randolph's See also:handwriting, discovered in 1887, seems to have been the See also:report (6th August) of a Committee of Detail of five members (John See also:Rutledge, Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Gorham, See also:Oliver Ellsworth and See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson). It is reproduced in facsimile in W. M. Meigs's The Growth of the Constitution (See also:Philadelphia, 1900). See also:Conway, who discovered it, exaggerated its importance and thought it had been See also:drawn by Randolph alone and before the Convention.of the duties of See also:circuit judges, and advocated a Federal See also:code; in 1791 he considered See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton's See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for a national See also:bank unconstitutional; and in 1792–93, in the See also:case Chisolm v. See also:Georgia before the supreme court, argued that a state might be sued by a See also:citizen of another state. On the 2nd of See also:January 1794 he succeeded See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Jefferson as secretary of state. In 1795 he wrote thirteen letters (signed " Germanicus" ) defending the President in his attack on the American Jacobin or democratic See also:societies. He was the only See also:cabinet member who opposed the ratification of the See also:Jay treaty (his letters to the President on the subject are reprinted in The American See also:Historical See also:Review, vol. xii. pp. 587–599), and before it was ratified the delicate task of keeping up friendly See also:diplomatic relations with See also:France See also:fell to him. See also:Home despatches of the See also:French See also:minister, See also:Joseph See also:Fauchet, intercepted by a See also:British See also:man-of-See also:war and sent to the British minister to the United States, accused Randolph of asking for See also:money from France to See also:influence the See also:administration against See also:Great See also:Britain. Although this See also:charge was demonstrably false, Randolph when confronted with it immediately resigned, and subsequently secured a retractation from Fauchet; he published A Vindication of Mr Randolph's Resignation (1795) and See also:Political Truth, or Animadversions on the Past and Present State of Public Affairs (1796). He was held personally responsible for the loss of a large sum of money during his administration of the state See also:department, and after years of litigation was judged by an arbitrator to be indebted to the government for more than $4.9,000, which he paid at great See also:sacrifice to himself. He re-moved to See also:Richmond in 1803, and during his last years was a See also:leader of the Virginia See also:bar; in 1807 he was one of See also:Aaron See also:Burr's counsel. He died at See also:Carter Hall, Millwood, See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke See also:county, Virginia, on the 12th of September 1813.
Moncure D. Conway, in his Omitted Chapters of See also:History disclosed in the See also:Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph (New See also:York, 1888; 2nd ed., 1889), greatly exaggerates Randolph's work in the Constitutional Convention; the commoner view underrates him and makes him a " See also:hair-splitter," and a man of no decision of See also:character.
End of Article: RANDOLPH, EDMUND [JENNINGS] (1753–1813)
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