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1779 to 1780
Original paper slip text:1779–1780
Massachusetts,
Original paper slip text:Massachusetts
A Constitution or Form of Government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the first three Amendments (of nine?) adopted in 1820–1821
10 p. (in 19); p. 6A has small mutilations and should be replaced.
Original in Secretary of State's Office, State House, Boston
Note: This is the text engrossed on parchment and signed by James Bowdoin, President of the Constitutional Convention of 1779–1780, and attested by Samuel Barrett,
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Secretary. Text printed in A Manual for the Constitutional Convention 1917..., 2d edn., Boston, 1917, p. 45–168, with legal and historical annotation and all Amendments through 1915 (p. 168–196).
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