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Recommended Document:

"My opinion of the energetic wants of the federal government are well known," by George Washington


Related Documents:

The Articles of Confederation, 1780, by Edmund Pendleton

The Critical Period and Shays' Rebellion, 1786, by James Bowdoin

Debates Within the Constitutional Convention, by Pierce Butler

The Three-Fifth Compromise

Fugitive Slaves and the Constitution, by Pierce Butler

Slavery and the Constitution, 1789, by George Clymer

Ratification Debates, 1787, by Edmund Pendleton

Ratification Debates, 1788, by John Hancock

Ratification Debates, 1788, by Henry Knox

Ratification Debates, 1788, by Walter Stewart

Ratification Debates, 1788, by George Washington

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