The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, 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: Greenleaf, Thomas, 1755-1798, printer.; James Madison Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Greenleaf
Published: 1789
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Subjects: Constitutional amendments -- United States.
Notes: Bristol 7099
Twelve articles, the Bill of Rights as submitted to the states.
Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Dec. 1937-June 1938. Formerly part of the James Madison Papers, vol. 76, p. 34.