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Documenting the need for amendments to the Constitution...
Documenting the need for amendments to the Constitution...
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June 03, 1789
GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES, New York, June 3, 1789 The front page includes a continued contribution to a series titled: "A Sketch of the Political State of America".
Page 2 has a very significant & interesting article headed: "Of the Constitution--and Amendments to the Same", which documents the need to amend the constitution to protect various rights. It includes in part: "...The constitution which has been the result of over deliberations, is unquestionably, the wisest ever yet presented to men...A great concurrence of opinion, however, authorizes to say that this constitution has some defects...that the important rights, not placed in security by the frame of the constitution itself, were not explicitly secured by a supplementary declaration. There are rights which it is useless to surrender to the government...Such a supplement to the constitution, where that is silent, is wanting to secure us in these points..." with more (see).
Over half of page 2 is taken up with reports headed: "Sketch of Proceedings of Congress", including some talk of creating the Dept. of Defense and the State Department. Also a report of two engraved cannon to the family of Major-General Greene.
Near the bottom of the back page is a neat notice headed: "The President's Household" signed in type by Samuel Frances (see).
Four pages, very nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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