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Thursday, July 10, 2025

The Things You Find When Visiting A Library With An Older Collection of Books on U.S. History

An Elector, To the Free Electors of this Town, Boston 1788, in 2 Charles S. Hyneman & Donald S. Lutz, American Political Writing During the Founding Era 17601805, at 70506 (1983) (describing electioneering as a corrupt practice);

1 Joseph L. Blau & Salo W. Baron, The Jews of the United States 17901840, at 28 (1963) (One article [of the North Carolina Constitution of 1776] granted complete freedom of religion; another required al state officials to be theists and Protestants and to accept the divine authority of both Old and New Testaments. As a Jew, Jacob Henry could not conscientiously conform to the latter provision.); 

15 The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, 3 Commentaries on the Constitution / Public and Private / 18 December 1787 to 31 January 1788 (John P. Kaminski & Gaspare J. Saladino eds. 1984):

The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania to their Constituents, at 15 DHRC 13, 29 (explaining that a quorum of the Senate is 14, and a treaty may be assented to by the Senate by 10 members, that is 2/3 of a quorum); 

Luther Martin, Genuine Information V(BaltimoreMaryland Gazette, 8 January 1788) 15 DHRC 348, 35152 (expounding on the history of the draft Ineligibility Clause); id. at 352 (And as the system is now reported, the president having the power to nominate to all offices . . . .” (italics in the original)); 

Seth Barrett Tillman, The Things You Find When Visiting A Library With An Older Collection of Books on U.S. History, New Reform Club (July 10, 2025, 8:55 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-things-you-find-when-visiting.html>;