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Massachusetts’s Ratification – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
Massachusetts’s Ratification Advertisement Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Massachusetts, February 6, 1788. Massachusetts was the sixth state to do so. Massachusetts’s ratification message was the first to include a list of desired changes to the Constitution, some of which were to protect states and some of which were to protect individuals. The…
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Georgia’s Ratification – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
Georgia’s Ratification Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Georgia, January 2, 1788. Georgia was the fourth state to do so. Georgia’s ratification message was short and to the point. The following text is taken from the Library of Congress’s copy of Elliot’s Debates. In Convention, Wednesday, January 2d, 1788. To all to whom…
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Delaware’s Ratification – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
Delaware’s Ratification Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Delaware, December 7, 1787. Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution. Delaware’s ratification message was short and to the point. The following text is taken from the Library of Congress’s copy of Elliot’s Debates. We, the deputies of the people of the Delaware…
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Connecticut’s Ratification – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
Connecticut’s Ratification Advertisement Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Connecticut, January 9, 1788. Connecticut was the fifth state to do so. Connecticut’s ratification message was short and to the point. The following text is taken from the Library of Congress’s copy of Elliot’s Debates. In the Name of the People of the State…
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The Quebec Act – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
The Quebec Act Following the British victory over France in the Seven Years’ War, the territories of France in northern North America, known as Canada, were granted to Britain in the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The British renamed the territory Quebec. The British Parliament passed the Quebec Act on October 7, 1774, in an…
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The Quartering Act – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
The Quartering Act Advertisement In 1765, Parliament passed a quartering act that stated that British troops in America would be housed in barracks and in public houses unless and until the number of troops overwhelmed the facilities, at which time, the troops could be housed in private commercial property, such as inns and stables, and…
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Washington’s Letter – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
Washington’s Letter In addition to the official Letter of Transmittal that accompanied the freshly signed Constitution, the President of the Convention, George Washington, wrote his own personal letter to the President of Congress, Arthur St. Clair. The text of this letter can be found in the The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (Farrand’s…
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List of Presidential Vetoes – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
List of Presidential Vetoes The Senate Library maintains a list of all bills vetoed by presidents over time. This list is published from time to time. The source for the information presented on this page was published in three documents, Presidential Vetoes, 1789 – 1988, Presidential Vetoes, 1989 – 2000, and Vetoes by President George…
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Message Board Posting Tips – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
Message Board Posting Tips Advertisement The USConstitution.net messaging system uses the YaBB system for posting messages and replies. The YaBB system is used throughout the Internet and may already be familiar to many users. This document will offer some tips for posting, both from a technical and a social point of view. The social tips…
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The Pledge of Allegiance – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
The Pledge of Allegiance Advertisement The Pledge of Allegiance was first published for Columbus Day, on September 8, 1892, in the Boston magazine The Youth’s Companion. It was written by a member of the magazine’s staff, Francis Bellamy. The publication of the Pledge, and its wide redistribution to schools in pamphlet form later that year…