The growth of the Constitution in the Federal Convention of 1787 : an effort to trace the origin and development of each separate clause from its first suggestion in that body to the form finally approved / by William M. Meigs, author of "The life of Charles Jared Ingersoll."

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Uniform Title:	HeinOnline. History of Supreme Court nominations. Legal classics library (Buffalo, N.Y.) HeinOnline. World constitutions illustrated.
Main Author:	Meigs, William M. (William Montgomery), 1852-1929
Corporate Author:	United States
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1900.
Series:	HeinOnline. History of Supreme Court nominations. Legal classics library (Buffalo, N.Y.) HeinOnline. World constitutions illustrated.
Subjects:	United States. > Constitutional Convention > (1787) Constitutional Convention (United States : 1787) Constitutional history > United States. Constitutional history. United States. Constituicao. Verfassunggebende Versammlung. Verfassungsrecht. USA. 1787 Geschichte 1787. Internet resources. Electronic books.
Genre:	Internet resources. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Law Library Microform Consortium)
Local Note:	LLMC Digital Library Collection
Physical Description:	1 online resource (374 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles.
Format:	Electronic eBook

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