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Constitutions des treize États-Unis de l'Amérique.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Continental Congress.
- Series:
- Making of the Modern World, Part I : The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850.
- The Making of the Modern World, Part I : The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutions--United States--States.
- Constitutions.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (540 pages )
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphie [i.e., Philadelphia] ; Et se trouve à Paris : P.D. Pierres, impr. ordinaire du Roi, [et] Pissot, père et fils, 1783.
- Notes:
- A translation of "The constitutions of the 13 states of colonial America: the Declaration of independence, the Articles of confederation" etc., a collection prepared by a committee of three under a resolution, December 1780, of the Continental Congress, first published, Philadelphia, 1781.
- The publication of this translation (made by Louis Alexandre, duc de La Rochefoucauld) was negotiated by Benjamin Franklin. (cf. Sparks' edition of Franklin's works, 1840, vol. IX, p. 503, 508, 523) It has no connection with Regnier's "Recueil des lois constitutives des colonies angloises à Philadelphie, Paris, 1778."
- Title vignette: first instance of the seal of the U.S.
- Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
- Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 12394.
- Cited in:
- RLIN, CTRG05-B10600
- OCLC:
- 65347451
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