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[Statement regarding the Constitution]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04065 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 1788 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 24.1 cm, Width: 19.1 cm Order a Copy

Date added later in pencil. Author writes, "'The new federal Constitution in its principal Articles meets my Ideas & I wish it may be adopted.' We do hereby certify that the honble. A Lee Esq. read the above Paragraph to us containd in a letter from the Reverd. Doctor Price to him."

Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792

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