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- GLC#
- GLC00267.020
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 06 April 1836
- Author/Creator
- United States. Congress (24th, 1st session : 1835-1836). House
- Title
- Amend the Constitution of the United States
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 22.2 cm, Width: 14.1 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
[Title continued] memorial of citizens of North Carolina, upon the subject of amending the Constitution of the United States.Twenty seven petitioners request: "In case that any State in the Union, either by the Legislature thereof, or by a convention chosen by the people of the same, shall solemnly declare their belief that any act which is or may be passed by both houses of Congress and approved by the President of the United States, is unconstitutional, the said State, by their Legislature or convention, shall make up a case, containing the grounds of their belief of its unconstitutionality, and lay it before the Supreme Court of the United States..."
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