Author: Massachusetts
Title: Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Together with the Governor's Communications, &C. To the Court. Begun and Held at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, on Wednesday the Thirtieth Day of May, Anno Domini - Mdccciv
Description: Boston, Printed by Young & Minns, 1804. First edition. Stitched, in original plain wrappers. 40 pp. Folio. Jefferson's presidency, combined with the growth of slavery and the acquisition of the Louisiana territory, and hence the assumed need for more slaves to work it, led the Massachusetts legislature to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to apportion representation based on the number of free inhabitants, and thus overturn Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution which counted slaves as three fifths of a person. Passage of the amendment was needed, the argument went, to "preserve the Union of the States," a phrase that would be repeated until the end of the Civil War, except for those who were part of the Northern Confederacy scheme or the Essex Junto. Shaw & Shoemaker 6742. Several corners creased, edges browned, date inked to wrapper, some offsetting, heavily foxing on later leaves, mostly to lower margins, but still good or better.
Keywords: New England States, , Americana, New England States, Americana, Massachusetts, Law, 19th c.,
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Title: Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Together with the Governor's Communications, &C. To the Court. Begun and Held at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, on Wednesday the Thirtieth Day of May, Anno Domini - Mdccciv
Description: Boston, Printed by Young & Minns, 1804. First edition. Stitched, in original plain wrappers. 40 pp. Folio. Jefferson's presidency, combined with the growth of slavery and the acquisition of the Louisiana territory, and hence the assumed need for more slaves to work it, led the Massachusetts legislature to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to apportion representation based on the number of free inhabitants, and thus overturn Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution which counted slaves as three fifths of a person. Passage of the amendment was needed, the argument went, to "preserve the Union of the States," a phrase that would be repeated until the end of the Civil War, except for those who were part of the Northern Confederacy scheme or the Essex Junto. Shaw & Shoemaker 6742. Several corners creased, edges browned, date inked to wrapper, some offsetting, heavily foxing on later leaves, mostly to lower margins, but still good or better.
Keywords: New England States, , Americana, New England States, Americana, Massachusetts, Law, 19th c.,
Price: US$ 150.00 Seller: Kaaterskill Books
- Book number: 35323
- Book number: 35323
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