 | Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1889 - 638 pages
...inserted. They will be found m the Journals of the first session of the first Congress.] CONGRESS op THE UNITED STATES, begun and held at the city of New York, on Wednesday, the 4th of March, 1789. The conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting... | |
 | Minnesota - 1889 - 724 pages
...Carolina, Nov. 21, 1789; Rhode Inland, May 29, 1790. The first ten of the amendments were proposed at the first session of the First Congress of the United States, Sept. 25, 1789; and were finally ratified by the constitutional number of states, Dec. 15, 1791. The... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...Secretary. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. [The following amendments were proposed at the first session of the first congress of the United States, which was begun and held at the city of New York on the 4th of March, 1789, and were adopted by the... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1889 - 876 pages
...May, 1790. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OP THE UNITED STATEa [The following amendments were proposed at the first session of the first congress of the United States, which was begun and held in the city of New York, on the 4th of March, 1788, and were adopted by the... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1890 - 912 pages
...17S)0. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED 8ТАТЕЯ [The following amendments were proposed such increase or reduction shall be filed in the office of the which was begun and held in the city of New York, on the 4th of March, 178», and were adopted by the... | |
 | George, firm, publishers, Bristol, Eng. (1890. William George's Sons) - America - 1890 - 166 pages
...Hodge, Allen, and Campbell, New York, 1789 8°, original binding, 20.00 [5oo Being the Acts passed at the FIRST SESSION OF THE FIRST CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, to wit New-Hampshire, Mass., Conn., NY, NJ, Penna., Del., Md., Va., SC, and Georgia, which Eleven States... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - United States - 1891 - 538 pages
...BALDWIN. Attest : WILLIAM JACKSON, Secretary. The following is prefixed to the first ten Amendments : "CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, " Begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday, the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. "The Conventions of a number of the... | |
 | Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1891 - 784 pages
...insert«!. They will be found in the journals of the urst session of the flrst Congress.] CoNonEss OF THE UNITED STATES, begun and held at the city of New York, on Wednesday, the 4th of March, 1780. The conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites, Calvin Noyes Kendall - United States - 1912 - 572 pages
...(The first ten are commonly called the " Bill of Rights ") [The first ten Amendments were proposed at the First Session of the First Congress of the United States. They were declared in force December 15, 1791. These Amendments were accompanied by the following explanatory... | |
 | Connecticut. Secretary of the State - Connecticut - 1913 - 674 pages
...are here inserted. They will be found in the journals of the first session of th« first congress.] CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. Begun and held at the city of Neiu York, on Wednesday, the 4ih day of March, 1789. order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its... | |
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The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should... 
