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Debates in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788

24 days, January–February 1788. The Massachusetts convention at Boston, January 9 to February 7, 1788: the minutes, the speeches as reported, the amendments it recommended and the yeas and nays on ratification.

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  1. January 9, 1788

    2 min

  2. January 10, 1788

    1 min

  3. January 11, 1788

    1 min

  4. January 12, 1788

    1 min

  5. January 14, 1788

    5 min

  6. January 15, 1788

    28 min

  7. January 16, 1788

    15 min

  8. January 17, 1788

    17 min

  9. January 18, 1788

    9 min

  10. January 19, 1788

    7 min

  11. January 21, 1788

    25 min

  12. January 22, 1788

    23 min

  13. January 23, 1788

    35 min

  14. January 24, 1788

    11 min

  15. January 25, 1788

    12 min

  16. January 26, 1788

    3 min

  17. January 28, 1788

    1 min

  18. January 30, 1788

    28 min

  19. February 1, 1788

    26 min

  20. February 2, 1788

    2 min

  21. February 4, 1788

    23 min

  22. February 5, 1788

    15 min

  23. February 6, 1788

    37 min

  24. February 7, 1788

    2 min

Text of Jonathan Elliot, ed., The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, vol. 2 (2nd ed., Washington, 1836), as the Library of Congress typed it, checked against a scan. How this text was made

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