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Rights


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CHAPTER 14

SEE ALSO:

Generally ch. 3; Bill of Rights

Charter of Libertyes and Priviledges, 30 Oct. 1683, The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution (1894), 1:111--16

Act Declareing What Are the Rights and Priviledges of Their Majesties Subjects Inhabiting within Their Province of New York, 13 May 1691, The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution (1894), 1:244--48

Stamp Act Congress, Declaration of Rights, 19 Oct. 1765, Sources 270--71

Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists, 20 Nov. 1772, Writings 2:350--59

Slave Petition to the Council and House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts, 13 Jan. 1777, MHS Collections, 5th ser., 3:436--37

Oliver Ellsworth, Landholder, no. 6, 10 Dec. 1787, Essays 163

James Bowdoin, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 23 Jan. 1788, Elliot 2:87--88

Agrippa, no. 15, 29 Jan. 1788, Storing 4.6.67--71

Agrippa, no. 16, 5 Feb. 1788, Storing 4.6.73

Impartial Examiner, no. 1, 20 Feb., 5 Mar. 1788, Storing 5.14.5, 10, 14--15

Joseph Spencer to James Madison, 28 Feb. 1788, Documentary History 4:525--26

John Leland, Objections to the Federal Constitution, Feb. 1788, Documentary History 4:528

Noah Webster, Bills of Rights, 1788, Collection 45--48

Benjamin Rush to David Ramsay, Spring 1788, Letters 1:453

Sentiments of Many, 18 June 1788, Storing 5.20.1--2

A Delegate Who Has Catched Cold, 25 June 1788, Storing 5.19.13--18

Debate in North Carolina Ratifying Convention, 24 July 1788, Elliot 4:9--11

James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions, Jan. 1800, Writings 6:385--401

Edmund Randolph, History of Virginia, 1809, 255

James Kent, Commentaries 2:1--8 (1827)


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