Amendments proposed.
Contributors: Russell, Benjamin, 1761-1845.; Massachusetts. Convention; Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Benjamin Russell
Published: 1788
Place of publication: [Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: United States. -- Sources.; Constitutional history -- United States -- Sources.
Other titles: Massachusetts centinel.
Notes: A list of seven proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States, with reasons given for each, published by Benjamin Russell in Boston. The text was first published in Russell's newspaper, The Massachusetts centinel, on January 26, 1788, and signed "Hampden." The presence of an undated fragment of proposed amendments derived from either the newspaper article or the broadside among the papers of William Cushing, the vice-president of the Massachusetts Convention held in 1788, suggests that the broadside may have been circulated among members of the convention. Cf. The documentary history of the ratification of the Constitution, ed. by Merrill Jensen.