Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-01-08
THE REPORTED CONSTRUCTION


Tie Committee of Seven made up their Re-
port about 3o'cock, and it was pu, IN the hands
| OF the Printer; and sGreebly to the ssisi.o. of
The Members, it was yesterday morning distri-
bntcd among them. We have obtained COPY.
| and lay it before our readers:
The Select Committee, to whom the several
Resolutions of the Convention wero referred,
with instructions to prepare and report either
a new Constitution, or amendments TO the ex-
| ls.ins Constitution, and 10 report an upportion-
nient OF the Representation in the Senate and
| House of Delegates among The several counties
cities, boroughs, and Districts Of the Common
| wealth, conormpbly with the resolutions to them
referred; respectfully report the following form
| o. an amended Constitution
Wnc;eas the Delegates and Representatives
OF the good people of Virginia in Convention
! assembled, on the twenty ninth day of June, in
! tic year Of our Lord one thousand seven hun
drcd and seyentyAsi1 !: Reciting and declaring,
that whereas, George the third, King of Great
ri an and Ireland and Elcctor of Ha mover, be
fore that time entrusted with the exercise of the
kingly oflic in the Government of Virginia,
had Sn.;eayored to peryert the same into de-
testbie and insupportable tyranny, by putting
his negative on laws tie most wholesome and
iecessaryio for the public good; by denying his
governors permission to pass laws Of immediate
and pressing Importance, unless suspended in
tEeir operation for his ascent and when so sus.
pended neglecting to attend to them for many
| years by refusing to pass certain other laws,
un'css the persons TO be benefited by them would
rei'nqulsh the inestimable right of representa-
| ton IN the Legislature; by dssoving Legislative
assemblies repeatedly and continually, for on
| posng with manly firmness his invasiSns Of the
nights OF the people when dissolved, by refus-
| ing to call others for a long space of time,
thereby leaving the political 81 Aem without any
legislative head; by endcsyoring to prevent
inc population OF cur country, and for that pur.
pose obtructing the laws for the naturalization
OF foreigners > by keeping among US. in time of
peace, standing armies and ships of war; by sf
iecting to render the military independent of
and superior to the civil power by combining
with others 10 subject to foreign jurisdiction.
giving his assent, to their pretended acts of le
gisiation, for quarte:iDg large bodies of armed
troops among US, for cutting off our trade with
all parts OF the world, for imposing taxes on us
without our consent, for depriving us Of the bone
hts OF the trial by jury, fof transporting us be.
yond seas TO BIO tried for pretended offences.
for suspendiDg our own Legislatures and decl,r.
ing Themselves invested with power to leaisla,e
fof us III all cases whatsoever; by plunderino
our seas, ravaging our coasts, burning our towns.
and destroying the lives Of our people 4; by in.
citing instructions of our fellow subjects with
the allurcments of forfeiture and con6scst;on .
by prompting our negrocsto rise in arms among
US, those very negroes, whom by an inbuman
use of3his negative no had refused us permission
toeSclpde by law BY endeavoripg to BRING ON
the ai6iabitants of our frontiers, the merc;lc,
INDIAN saVagos, whose known rule of warfare
IS ga undis,ngushed destruction OF all ,re.
sexes and conditions Of existence by trans.
porting a large army Of foreign m.reenaries
! to complete the work Of death, dcsolation ana
| tyfshhy, then already begun with circumstaoce,
! Ct cfuelty'an and Pcr6dy unworthy the head oe ;.
/ civilized station; by answeripa our reoss,ud
petitions or rcdicss With repetition Of ;,;,-;o.
and iinai'y. by abandoning tho helm If rovo+.'
reo' sna declaring zig cot IF his s:lsg;a,cs 49,,