... Edmund Randolph, who became respectively the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War and the Attorney General. From the beginning, a department's functions have always varied with the will of the President. Secretary of State Jefferson, for ...
... Edmund Randolph, then Governor of Virginia and shortly to be the first Attorney General of the United States; and George Mason, the distinguished author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights from which our own Bill of Rights was forged ...
... EDMUND RANDOLPH was the 34- year-old Governor of Virginia. He was nearly six feet tall, with brown eyes and dark hair. He wavered in his opinion about the new Constitution. He did not sign it because he feared that Congress was given ...
... Edmund Randolph, Light Horse Harry Lee, and, as it turned out, of first importance, John Marshall. George Mason ... Randolph's defense. Then George Mason made another tactical mistake characteristic of his disinterestedness and ...
... Edmund Randolph commenced this work, but young Hamilton took over the composition and wrote a bitter report. Madison feared its effect on Randolph and Virginia. He urged a milder tone, a more conservative approach. Hamilton rewrote the ...
... Edmund Randolph's Sixth Resolution, presented to the Convention May 29, 1787, "that the National Legislature ought to be im- powered to enjoy the Legislative Rights vested in Congress by the Confederation & moreover to legislate in all ...
... Edmund Randolph of Virginia on May 29, 1787, a few days after the convention opened. Randolph essentially articulated the tacit convention assumption that amendment of the articles would be ineffective and that a wholly new frame of ...
... Edmund Randolph, formerly George Washington's secretary of state and attorney general. Like unforgetting Virginians of his period, he was anti-British and used these sympathies to persuade a jury to decide in a client's favor. Young ...
... Edmund Randolph, the friend and personal legal adviser of George Washington, became the first Attorney General of the United States on December 14, 1789. Following Randolph, sixty- three other distinguished American lawyers have ...
... Edmund Randolph, was also made a delegate. But what of Congress? The Act said that the Commissioners who had assembled at Annapolis had "represented the necessity of extending the revision of the federal system to all its defects" and ...