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The Fathers of the Constitution

CHAPTER VIII
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Poore's "Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, etc.," 2 vols.

(1877); F.N.

Thorpe's "The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws", 7 vols.
(1909); and the "Journals of the Continental Congress" (1904-1914), edited from the original records in the Library of Congress by Worthington C.Ford and Gaillard Hunt, of which 23 volumes have appeared, bringing the records down through 1782.
NOTES ON THE PORTRAITS OF MEMBERS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION WHO SIGNED THE CONSTITUTION BY VICTOR HUGO PALTSITS Forty signatures were attached to the Constitution of the United States in the Federal Convention on September 17, 1787, by thirty-nine delegates, representing twelve States, and the secretary of the Convention, as the attesting officer.

George Washington, who signed as president of the Convention, was a delegate from Virginia.

There are reproduced in this volume the effigies or pretended effigies of thirty-seven of them, from etchings by Albert Rosenthal in an extra-illustrated volume devoted to the Members of the Federal Convention, 1787, in the Thomas Addis Emmet Collection owned by the New York Public Library.


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