 | Calvin Henderson Wiley - 1852 - 232 pages
...text, letter, and punctuation. The following is prefixed to the first ten* of the preceding amendments. 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. The Conventions of a number of the... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - 1853 - 476 pages
...inserted. They will be found in the journals of the first session of the first congress.] CONGRESS OP THE UNITED STATES, Begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday \ the 4th of March, 1789. The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting... | |
 | William Hickey - 1854 - 588 pages
...Vice-President of the United States. The following is prefixed to the first ten* of the preceding amendments. 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. The Conventions of a number of the... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - 1854 - 528 pages
...are here inserted. They will be found in the journals of the first seasion of the first congress.] CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday, the 4th of March, 1789. The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting... | |
 | William Hickey - 1854 - 590 pages
...as part of the said Constitution, to wit : The ten first of the preceding amendments were proposed at the first session of the first Congress, of the United States, 25 September, 1789, and were finally ratified by the constitutional number of States, on the 15th day... | |
 | United States. President - 1854 - 616 pages
...in the text and punctuation thereof. It appears that the first ten amendments, which were proposed at the first session of the first Congress of the United States, were finally ratified by the constitutional number of states, on the 15th day of December, 1791 ; that... | |
 | Oregon - 1855 - 670 pages
...they arc here inserted. They will be found in the journals of the first session of the first Congress. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Begun and held at the city of New York, on Wednesday, the 4th of March, 1789. The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting... | |
 | John Wilkes Richmond - 1855 - 236 pages
...part of their said securities in the said bills of credit : And whereas, at the second session of the Congress of the United States, begun and held at the city of New York, on Monday the fourth day of January, AD 1790, by an act passed on the fourth day of August in the same... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - 1855 - 546 pages
...are here inserted. They will be found in the journals of the first session of the first congress.] CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Begun and held at the City of New Forfc, on Wednesday, the 1th of March, 1789. The conventions of a number of the states having, at the... | |
 | 1872 - 588 pages
...Prceident, and Deputy from Virginia. АЖЯЗЮЖЯЯТ», (The following amendments were proposed at the first session of the first congress of the United States, which was begun and held at the city of New York, on the 4tn of March, 1789, and were adopted by the... | |
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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... 
