 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1859 - 736 pages
...assembly of envoys, commissioners or deputies. An assembly of representatives from different governments, to concert measures for their common good, or to adjust their mutual concerns.* Webster. In American law. The national legislature of the United States, consisting of the Senate and... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 530 pages
...Adam's Diet, tif Rdiifiun.) CONGRESS, an assembly of envoys delegated by different courts with powers to concert measures for their common good or to adjust their mutual concerns. The term is given also to a meeting of sovereign princes which is heid for the like purpose. The delegates... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 526 pages
...Adam's Diet. <i//W/'/iw.) CONGRESS, an assembly of envoys delegated by different courte with poweis to concert measures for their common good or to adjust their mutual concerns The term ie given also to a meeting of sovereign princes which is held for the like purpose. The delegates... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 452 pages
...enCongress? voys, commissioners, or deputiea. An assembly of representatives from different governments to concert measures for their common good, or to adjust their mutual concerns. Webster. Here it is the National Legislature. 1 Kent's Com. 221; Burrill's Law Die., CONGRESS. The... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 448 pages
...enCongress? voys, commissioners, or deputies. An assembly of representatives from different governments to concert measures for their common good, or to adjust their mutual concerns. Webster. Here it is the National Legislature. 1 Kent's Com. 221 ; Bun-ill's Law Die., CONGRESS. The... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 624 pages
...number of members is 350,000. CONGRESS, an assembly of envoys delegated by different courts with power to concert measures for their common good or to adjust their mutual concerns. The term is given also to a meeting of sovereign princes which is held for the like purpose. The delegates... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - Law - 1883 - 770 pages
...international law.— An assembly of envoys, commissioners, deputies, <fec., from different courts, who meet to concert measures for their common good, or to adjust, their mutual concerns. £ 2. Of the United States.— The HSist'inbly of senator* and representatives of the several Suites, forming... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1883 - 908 pages
...Independents. Congress, an assembly of envoys, commissioners, deputies, etc., from different courts, who meet to concert measures for their common good, or to adjust their mutual concerns. Congress of the United States of America, the assembly of senators and representatives of the several... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - Law - 1888 - 772 pages
...international law. — An assembly of envoys, commissioners, deputies, &c., from different courts, who meet to concert measures for their common good, or to adjust their mutual concerns. \ 2. Of the United States.— The assembly of senators and representatives of the several States, forming... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely - Law - 1889 - 800 pages
...Independents. Congress, an assembly of envoys, commissioners, deputies, etc., from different courts, who meet to concert measures for their common good, or to adjust their mutual concerns. Congress of the United States of America, the assembly of senators and representatives of the several... | |
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The term is given also to a meeting of sovereign princes which is held for the like purpose. The delegates from the Assemblies of the British colonies who met at New York 7th October, 1765, to consider their grievances, called their assemblage a Congress. 
