CONSTITUTIONAL WRITINGS & DEBATES  OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

 
Following this list, Dorothy Carrington only explored the papers written by Madison (the Madison’s Notes on debates in the Federal Convention of 1787)

The analysis of the whole corpus I did convienced ma that there is no indication at all about corsican exemple and even less about the precedence of the Revolution in Corsica compared with the American one in all the debates and major writings issued from 1754 to 1799.

 One finds thereafter the enumeration of  all the texts, relating to the Revolution of the 13 States and to the constitutioal corpus, in which the corsican question is never mentioned :

·        Albany Plan of Union 1754

·         Resolutions of the Congress of 1765

·         Declarations and Resolves of the First Continental Congress; 1774

·         The Articles of Association; October 20, 1774

·         The Mecklenburgh Resolutions : May 20, 1775

·         The Charlotte Town Resolves; May 31, 1775

·         Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms : July 6, 1775

·         Resolution of Secrecy Adopted by the Continental Congress, November 9, 1775

·         Constitution of New Hampshire - January 5, & South Carolina - March 26, 1776

·         Preamble and Resolution of the Virginia Convention, May 15, 1776

·         Draft Constitution for Virginia; June 1776

·         Lee's Resolution; June 7, 1776

·         Virginia Declaration of Rights; June 12, 1776

·         Constitution of Virginia; June 29, & New Jersey; July 2, 1776

·         Declaration of Independence; July 4, 1776

·         Constitution of Delaware; September 10, 1776, Pennsylvania - September 28, Maryland; November 11, North Carolina; December 18, Georgia; February 5, 1777, New York; April 20, Vermont; July 8, South Carolina; March 19, 1778

·         Articles of Confederation; 1781

·         Constitution of Vermont; July 4, 1786

·         The Annapolis Convention; September 11, 1786

·         Report of Proceedings in Congress; February 21, 1787

·        Northwest Ordinance July 13, 1787


Accreditation
of Federal Convention members 

·         State of Connecticut; May 2, 1787

·         Commonwealth of Massachusetts; April 9, 1787 State of New Hampshire; June 27, 1787

·         State of New Jersey; June 5, 1787

·         State of New York; March 6, 1787

·         State of Pennslyvania; March 28, 1787

Federal Convention


·         Variant Texts of the Virginia Plan, Presented by Edmund Randolph to the Federal Convention, May 29, 1787. Text A, B & C

·         The Plan of Charles Pinckney (South Carolina), Presented to the Federal Convention, May 29, 1787

·         Variant Texts of the Plan Presented by William Patterson, ( N. J. ) to the Federal Convention, June 15, 1787. Text A, B & C

·         Variant Texts of the Plan Presented by Alexander Hamilton to the Federal Convention, June 18, 1787. Text. A, B, C, D & E

·         Madison's Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787

·         Constitution as Recorded in Madison's Notes; September 12, 1787

·         Notes of Alexander Hamilton in the Federal Convention of 1787

·         Notes of Rufus King in the Federal Convention of 1787

·         Notes of Major William Pierce (Georgia) in the Federal Convention of 1787

·         Papers of Dr. James McHenry on the Federal Convention of 1787

·         Notes of William Paterson in the Federal Convention of 1787

·         Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787, Taken by the Late Hon Robert Yates, Chief Justice of the State of New York, and One of the Delegates from That State to the Said Convention

·        United States Constitution

Ratification and constitution of the Government 

·         Letter of the President of the Federal Convention, Dated September 17, 1787, to the President of Congress, Transmitting the Constitution.

·         Resolution of the Federal Convention Submitting the Constitution to Congress, September 17, 1787

·         Resolution of Congress of September 28, 1787, Submitting the Constitution To the Several States.

·         Circular Letter of the Secretary of Congress, Dated September 28, 1787, Transmitting Copy of the Constitution to the Several Governors.

·         Ratifications of the Constitution by the State of Delaware; December 7, 1787,  Pennsylvania; December 12, New Jersey; December 18, Georgia; January 2, 1788, Connecticut; January 8, Massachusetts; February 6, Maryland; April 28, South Carolina; May 23, New Hampshire; June 21, Virginia; June 26.

·         Resolution of Congress, Dated July 2, 1788, Submitting Ratifications of the Constitution to a Committee

·         Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New York; July 26, 1788

·         Resolution of the Congress, of September 13, 1788, Fixing Date for Election of a President, and the Organization of the Government Under the Constitution, in the City of New York.

·         Resolution of the First Congress Submitting Twelve Amendments to the Constitution; March 4, 1789

·         Ratification of the Constitution by the State of North Carolina; November 21, 1789

·         Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Rhode Island; May 29, 1790.

·         The Federalist Papers

·         Declaration of the Rights of Man; 1789

·         Virginia Resolution 1798

·         Kentucky Resolutions : Draft - October 1798

·         Kentucky Resolution - 1799

 

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