Congress of the United States: begun and held at the city of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine
Subtitle: The conventions of a number of the states having at the time of their adopting the Constitution expressed a desire ... that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added ... Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives ... that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as amendments to the Constitution ...
Contributors: Childs, Francis, 1763-1830, printer; Swaine, John, 1762?-1794, printer
Publisher: Printed by Childs and Swaine
Published: 1792
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Constitutional amendments; Early works to 1800; United States; Constitution (United States)
Notes: Caption title.

Contains (p. [1]-2) the texts of twelve proposed amendments, to the Constitution. Followed (p. 3-11) by the texts of the ratifications by the states, 1789-1791. With their ratification by Virginia on Dec. 15, 1791, the third through twelfth of the proposed amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, received the necessary approval of three-quarters of the states and became the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

"Childs and Swaine were paid July 18, 1792, for 135 copies."--Bristol.

Signatures: [A]Â² B-CÂ² (C2 verso blank).

Rare Book Hamilton collection copy (HJ8105 1789 c.4): No. 24 in a bound volume of titles.

Bristol B8177

Shipton & Mooney 46596

English short title catalogue, W33765

Gift; Elizabeth Peltz Hamilton.