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Debates and proceedings in the Convention of the commonwealth of Massachusetts held in the year 1788 and which finally ratified the Constitution of the United States / printed by authority of Resolves of the Legislature, 1856.

Author/creator Massachusetts. Convention (1788)
Other author/creatorPeirce, B. K. (Bradford Kinney), 1819-1889.
Other author/creatorHale, Charles, 1831-1882.
Other author/creatorMassachusetts. General Court. Committee on the Library.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBoston : W. White, printer to the Commonwealth, 1856.
Descriptionvii, 442 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Subject(s)
Series Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Partial contents Public sentiment of the day -- Spirit of the press -- Letters -- Articles in addition to and amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
Local noteLibrary's copy imperfect: some stained pages and bleed-through of text; p. 441-442 mutilated with some loss of text.
Local noteLibrary's copy imperfect: some stained pages and bleed-through of text; p. 441-442 mutilated with some loss of text.
Local noteLibrary's copy imperfect: some stained pages and bleed-through of text; p. 441-442 mutilated with some loss of text.
General note"It will be observed that three separate and independent records of the proceedings of the Convention are included within this volume. The first is the Official journal kept by the Secretary of the Convention, occupying pages 29 to 94, inclusive. The second is the Report of debates, taken by the editors of the newspapers, occupying pages 95 to 284, inclusive. The third is Judge Parson's Minutes, occupying pages 285 to 320, inclusive ... . The first and third of these records are here printed for the first time. The second is printed from the volume published in 1808, which was the second edition of the Debates." Cf. Pref., p. vii.
General noteEdited by Brandford K. Peirce and Charles Hale, whose initials appear on p. vii, Pref.
General noteIncludes index.
General noteReproduction of original from Huntington Library.
General noteSabin no. 29619.
References RLIN, CTRG05-B10055
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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