Title: Debates and proceedings in the Convention of the
commonwealth of Massachusetts held in the year 1788 and which
finally ratified the Constitution of the United States.Author: B K
PeircePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph
Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana,
1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and
other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to
the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of
discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the
U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans,
slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana
offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP05236500CollectionID:
CTRG05-B10055PublicationDate: 18560101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: "It will be observed that three separate and
independent records of the proceedings of the Convention are
included within this volume. The first is the Official journal kept
by the Secretary of the Convention, occupying pages 29 to 94,
inclusive. The second is the Report of debates, taken by the
editors of the newspapers, occupying pages 95 to 284, inclusive.
The third is Judge Parson's Minutes, occupying pages 285 to 320,
inclusive ... . The first and third of these records are here
printed for the first time. The second is printed from the volume
published in 1808, which was the second edition of the Debates."
Cf. Pref., p. vii. Edited by Brandford K. Peirce and Charles Hale,
whose initials appear on p. vii, Pref. Includes index.Collation:
vii, 442 p.: ill.; 24 cm
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