Debates on the adoption of the federal constitution : the memorial of Jonathan Elliot, of the City of Washington.

[City of Washington?] : [publisher not identified], [1826]

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Memorial of Jonathan Elliot, of the City of Washington

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December 4, 1826 solicitation from Jonathan Elliot for support from the legislature for the publication of a series of debates, resolution, and other proceeding regarding amendments to the United States Constitution. 1825 resolutions from various states were related to Georgia's resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution which would not allow the importation or ingress of any person of color in a state, contrary to its laws. The second page includes a handwritten note [mostly illegible] for North Carolina.

"The Subscriber proposes to publish, in the month of January next, the first volume of a series of Debate's, Resolutions, and other Proceedings had in Convention, in the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as agreed to, at Philadelphia, on the seventeenth of September, 1787. ... With these observations, your memorialist respectfully solicits the patronage of your honorable body."
"City of Washington, December 4, 1826."--End of memorial.

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