Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States

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1927. Part Two of Two. The purpose of the publication of this collection of documents on the origin and development of our constitutional history is to present under one cover the most significant papers relative to the formation of the American Federal States. The only comparable collection of documents published by the Government of the United States is the Documentary History of the Constitution. Partial Contents: Secret proceedings and debates of the convention assembled at Philadelphia in the year 1787, for the purpose of forming the Constitution of the United States of America; Variant texts of the plan presented by Alexander Hamilton to the Federal Convention; The Constitution of the United States; Ratification of the Constitution by the several States, arranged in order of their ratification; Resolution of the Congress, September 13, 1788, fixing date for the election of a President, and the organization of the Government under the Constitution; The first 10 amendments to the Constitution; and Subsequent amendments to the Constitution. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417933097.