Amendment I (Petition and Assembly)
SEE ALSO:
Generally Bill of Rights
The Riot Act, 1 Geo. 1, c. 5 (1714--16)
Delaware Declaration of Rights and Fundamental Rules, 11 Sept. 1776, Sources 339
North Carolina Constitution of 1776, Declaration of Rights, art. 18, Thorpe 5:2788
Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, Declaration of Rights, art. 16, Thorpe 5:1508
Vermont Constitution of 1777, ch. 1, sec. 18, ch. 2, sec. 12, Thorpe 6:3741--42, 3744
Closing Arguments of Thomas Erskine for Defendant, Solicitor General James Mansfield for Prosecution, and Summation of Lord Mansfield, Proceedings against Lord George Gordon for Treason, 21 How. St. Tr. 587--647 (1781)
New Hampshire Constitution of 1784, arts. 31--32, Thorpe 4:2457
Vermont Constitution of 1786, ch. 1, sec. 4, Thorpe 6:3752
Virginia Ratifying Convention, Proposed Amendment, 27 June 1788, Dumbauld 184--85
New York Ratifying Convention, Proposed Amendment, 26 July 1788, Dumbauld 191
North Carolina Ratifying Convention, Proposed Amendment, 1 Aug. 1788, Dumbauld 201
Kentucky Constitution of 1792, art. 12, sec. 22, Thorpe 3:1275
House of Representatives, President's Speech, 24--27 Nov. 1794, Annals 4:899--945
House of Representatives, Yazoo Land Claims, 4 Jan. 1808, Annals 17:1283--85, 1294
Illinois Constitution of 1818, art. 8, sec. 19, Thorpe 2:983
The Founders' Constitution
Volume 5, Amendment I (Petition and Assembly), Introduction
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_assemblys23.html
The University of Chicago Press