... 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, in spite of the offices he held, becomes understandable to one who has read this book. Randolph belongs in the second or third rank of historical figures, if any ranking can be made. He plainly was not in the same ...
... 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 ...
... Randolph managed to catch what would later be called "Potomac fever." Fearful that Washington would serve only one ... Edmund Randolph will be interesting for those who want a look at our country ' s early days from an unusual ...
... 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 ...