The Debates, resolutions, and other proceedings, in convention, on the adoption of the federal Constitution : as recommended by the general convention at Philadelphia, on the 17th of September, 1787: with the yeas and nays on the decision of the main question / collected and revised, from contemporary publications, by Jonathan Elliot ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliot, Jonathan, 1784-1846.

Contributor:

Madison, James, 1751-1836.

United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)

French War Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution.

United States.

Constitution (United States).

Penn Provenance:

Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor)

Rosengarten, J. G. (Joseph George), 1835-1921 (donor) (RBC copy)

Rush, Benjamin (autograph) (former owner) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

4 volumes ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : Printed by and for the editor, 1827-1830.

Contents:

V. 1, "Containing the debates in Massachusetts and New York"

v. 2, "Containing the debates in the commonwealth of Virginia"

v. 3, "Containing the debates in the states of North Carolina and Pennsylvania"

v. 4, Supplementary to the state Conventions.

Notes:

Title of v. 4: Journal and debates of the Federal convention, held at Philadelphia from May 14, to September 17, 1787. With the Constitution of the United States, illustrated by the opinions of twenty successive Congresses ... With full indexes ... By Jonathan Elliot. Vol. IV. (Supplementary to the State conventions, in 3 vol., on adopting the federal Constitution).

A fifth vol. was published in 1845, with title: Debates on the adoption of the federal Constitution in the convention held at Philadelphia, in 1787; with a diary of the debates of the Congress of the Confederation; as reported by James Madison ... Revised ... by Jonathan Elliot ... Vol. V. Supplementary to Elliot's Debates ...

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

RBC copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the French War Book Fund.

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 1923 by Mr. Joseph G. Rosengarten.

RBC copy signed Benjamin Rush, 1860.

Cited in:

Sabin, 22232

Shoemaker, 28775

Other Format:

Online version: Debates, resolutions, and other proceedings, in convention, on the adoption of the federal Constitution.

OCLC:

863903