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Creating the Bill of Rights
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Demand for a Bill of Rights
Amendments Sent for Ratification
Proposed Amendments to the Federal Constitution (Bill of Rights), September 1789. Manuscript engrossed and signed by John James Beckley. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (84)
[Digital ID# raadf010]
Proposed Constitutional Amendments
Proposed Articles of Amendment to the Federal Constitution, September 14, 1789. Broadside. New York: Thomas Greenleaf. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (84.01.00)
[Digital ID# us0084_01p1; us0084_01p2]
Proposed Constitutional Amendments
Amendments Proposed to be Added to the Federal Constitution by the Congress of the United States of America. Boston: Thomas Adams, 1790. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (84.02.01)
[Digital ID# us0084_02 — us0084_02p3]
African Colony for Freed Slaves
James Madison. Memorandum on a African Colony for Freed Slaves, ca. October 20, 1789. Manuscript. William Thornton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (85.00.00)
[Digital ID# us0085 — us0085_1]
Jefferson Tallies State Ratifications of “Rights”
Thomas Jefferson. “Tabulation of State Votes on Amendments to the Constitution,” 1789–1791. Manuscript document. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
(85.02.00)
[Digital ID# us0085_01]
James Madison
James Madison, 4th President of the United States. New York: H.R. Robinson. Color lithograph, [between 1836 and 1842]. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (107.04.00)
[Digital ID# ppmsca.24329]
English Declaration of Rights
Declaration of Rights in Anno Regni Gulielmi et Mariæ Regis & Reginæ Angliæ, Scotia, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, Primo. London: Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1689. Law Library, Library of Congress (108.00.02)
[Digital ID # us0108_04]
American Liberty as Goddess of Youth
Edward Savage. Liberty in the Form of the Goddess of Youth, Giving Support to the Bald Eagle. Philadelphia: Edward Savage, June 11, 1796. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (131.00.00)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-13641]
Amendments
Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America, Begun and Held at the City of New York . . . . New York: Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1789. Law Library, Library of Congress (084.03.00)
[Digital ID 0084_03]
Jefferson Sees a Need for a Bill of Rights
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, March 18, 1789. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (079.02.00)
[Digital ID # us0079_02]
Religious Rights Endangered in Virginia
Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, August 20, 1785. Manuscript, partly in cipher. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (076.02.00)
(Digital ID # us0076_02)
The Washington Family
Edward Savage. The Washington Family, George Washington, His Lady and Her Two Grandchildren by the Name of Custis. Hand colored engraving. Philadelphia: E. Savage and Robert Wilkinson. London: 1798. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (074.02.00)
[Digital ID # pga-02650]
Creating the Bill of Rights
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Formation of Political Parties
George Washington, Commander in Chief
Charles Bathazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin. George Washington. Charcoal on tinted paper, ca. 1800. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (021.01.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-11597]
First Bank of the United States
William Birch. Bank of the United States with a View of Third St. Philadelphia, from The City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, North America, As it Appeared in the Year 1800. . . . Hand-colored engraving. Springland, Pennsylvania: William Birch and Son, 1800. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (54.00.04)
[Digital ID# us0054_06]
Amending the Constitution
Roger Sherman. Draft Report of a Special Committee of Congress, ca. July 21, 1789. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (81.00.01)
[Digital ID# us0081_1; us0081]
Amending the Body of the Constitution
Congress of the United States, in the House of Representatives, . . . [Report] from the Committee of Eleven. New York: Thomas Greenleaf, 1789. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (82.00.01)
[Digital ID# us0082_1; us0082]
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