Title: State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, May 5, 1777
Description: Resolve of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, May 5, 1777, calling for the election of a general assembly to choose and form "a new Constitution of government." In this same resolution the House directed that its resolution be printed "in Hand-bills, one of which to be transmitted to the Selectmen of each Town, or the Committee of each Plantation."
Subjects: Constitutions, Constitutional conventions, Representative government and representation, Constitutional law, Politics and government, Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention (1777-1778)
Places: Massachusetts
Time periods: 1775-1783