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The state ratifying conventions

Debates in the New York Ratifying Convention, 1788

24 days, June–July 1788. The New York convention at Poughkeepsie, June 17 to July 26, 1788, with the ratification, the amendments recommended and the circular letter to the states.

24 days642 paragraphs86k words
  1. June 17, 1788

    20 min
  2. June 20, 1788

    41 min
  3. June 21, 1788

    51 min
  4. June 23, 1788

    32 min
  5. June 24, 1788

    40 min
  6. June 25, 1788

    32 min
  7. June 26, 1788

    9 min
  8. June 27, 1788

    44 min
  9. June 28, 1788

    35 min
  10. June 30, 1788

    1 min
  11. July 1, 1788

    17 min
  12. July 2, 1788

    38 min
  13. July 4, 1788

    1 min
  14. July 5, 1788

    4 min
  15. July 7, 1788

    2 min
  16. July 8, 1788

    1 min
  17. July 9, 1788

    1 min
  18. July 10, 1788

    1 min
  19. July 11, 1788

    2 min
  20. July 16, 1788

    1 min
  21. July 19, 1788

    1 min
  22. July 23, 1788

    1 min
  23. July 25, 1788

    1 min
  24. July 26, 1788

    3 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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