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INCLUDES THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND WASHINGTON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS UNITED STATES. Journal of the First Session of the Senate of the United States of America, begun and Held at the City of New-York, March 4th 1789. 168 pages, only; lacks the terminal two index leaves. Folio, self-wrappers, toned, chipped; interior clean, last leaf present defective (index leaf); embossed library stamp on the front wrapper. sold as is.<> New York: Greenleaf, 1789
Although lacking two pages of the index, this printing includes the proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution (pages 164-5), 10 of which became the Bill of Rights. Also includes George Washington's first inaugural address (pages 23-25), the House of Representatives first draft of the Bill of Rights (pages 103-106), the Senate revisions to the House version of the constitutional amendments (pages 114-131), and a request from Washington to establish a militia due to hostilities with the Wabash Indians along the Ohio River (pages 136-7).<
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