New Jersey Supplemental Documents Ratification of the Constitution by the States
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The supplemental documents are intended to provide a fuller documentation and understanding of the debate over the ratification of the Constitution in New Jersey than was possible in the printed volume of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (Wisconsin Historical Society Press/Center for the Study of the American Constitution). This supplement contains official documents, letters, and newspaper items. Except for some photographic reproductions (facsimiles), the documents consist mostly of literal transcripts. The documents are arranged chronologically except for those on particular subjects which are grouped together. These groupings are: -- The New Jersey Assembly and the Congressional Requisition of September 1785, 18 February-17 March 1786 -- The New Jersey Legislature and the Appointment of Delegates to the Annapolis Convention, 14 March 1786-30 May 1787 -- County Petitions to the Legislature, 1-25 October 1787 -- The New Jersey Legislature and the Payment of Convention Delegates, 31 October-6 November 1787 -- A Farmer of New Jersey: Observations on Government, 3 November 1787-4 December 1788 -- Newspaper Reports of the Calling of the State Convention, 7-20 November 1787 -- Newspaper Reports of Convention Elections, 27 November-18 December 1787 -- Reports of New Jersey Ratification, 21 December 1787-11 January 1788 -- Abraham Clark and the Constitution, 23 July 1788-6 February 1789 This Supplement contains 4 facsimiles totaling 87 individual pages. These facsimiles provide a visual representation of original documents, some of which were difficult or impossible to transcribe.
New Jersey Supplemental Documents Ratification of the Constitution by the States John P. Kaminski and Charles H. Schoenleber and Sarah K. Danforth and Thomas H. Linley and Richard Leffler and Gaspare J. Saladino and Joan Westgate and Margaret R. Flamingo and Timothy D. Moore and Anna M. Biermeier and David P. Fields and Jonathan M. Reid and Johanna E. Lannér-Cusin
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The supplemental documents are intended to provide a fuller documentation and understanding of the debate over the ratification of the Constitution in New Jersey than was possible in the printed volume of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (Wisconsin Historical Society Press/Center for the Study of the American Constitution). This supplement contains official documents, letters, and newspaper items. Except for some photographic reproductions (facsimiles), the documents consist mostly of literal transcripts. The documents are arranged chronologically except for those on particular subjects which are grouped together. These groupings are: -- The New Jersey Assembly and the Congressional Requisition of September 1785, 18 February-17 March 1786 -- The New Jersey Legislature and the Appointment of Delegates to the Annapolis Convention, 14 March 1786-30 May 1787 -- County Petitions to the Legislature, 1-25 October 1787 -- The New Jersey Legislature and the Payment of Convention Delegates, 31 October-6 November 1787 -- A Farmer of New Jersey: Observations on Government, 3 November 1787-4 December 1788 -- Newspaper Reports of the Calling of the State Convention, 7-20 November 1787 -- Newspaper Reports of Convention Elections, 27 November-18 December 1787 -- Reports of New Jersey Ratification, 21 December 1787-11 January 1788 -- Abraham Clark and the Constitution, 23 July 1788-6 February 1789 This Supplement contains 4 facsimiles totaling 87 individual pages. These facsimiles provide a visual representation of original documents, some of which were difficult or impossible to transcribe.