A Source Book in American History to 1787

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135. The Virginia Convention, May 15, instructs for independence
  and adopts resolutions for a bill of rights and a constitution;
  _ib._                                                              445

  136. The Virginia Bill of Rights; from Poore's _Charters and
  Constitutions_                                                     446

  137. Virginia's Declaration of Independence, June 29, 1776; from
  _Jefferson's Writings_                                             450

  138. Revolutionary State Governments:

  _a._ The recommendation of Congress of May 15, 1776;
  from Ford's _Journals of Congress_                                 452

  _b._ John Adams' comment; from _John Adams' Letters
  to Abigail Adams_                                                  453

  139. The Maryland Convention instructs its delegates in Congress
  against independence; from _Proceedings of the Conventions
  of Maryland_                                                       454

  140. Lee's motion for Independence in Congress; from Ford's
  _Journals_                                                         458

  141. The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776; from Ford's
  _Journals of Congress_                                             459

  142. Anti-social tendencies of pre-Revolutionary measures:

  _a._ The effect of closing the courts (Adams' account of his
  welcome by his horse-jockey client); from _John
  Adams' Works_                                                      463

  _b._ A Tory's protest against mob violence, in a parody
  on Hamlet's soliloquy; from Moore's _Diary of the
  American Revolution_                                               464

  _c._ Correspondence between a Tory and a Committee,
  showing how the Tory was induced to sign
  a recantation; from Niles' _Principles and Acts of
  the Revolution_                                                    464

  143. An oath of allegiance to a new State (Pennsylvania): a
  facsimile, from Scharf and Westcott's _History of Philadelphia_    466

  144. A Loyalist's pretended "diary" of the year 1789 (written
  in 1778), to show the danger of French conquest; from
  Tyler's _Literary History of the American Revolution_              467

  145. A statement of how the Revolution set free social forces; from
  David Ramsey's _History of the American Revolution_                468


  E. CONFEDERATION AND CONSTITUTION


  XXIV. The Articles of Confederation

  146. Debates in the Congress on the Articles; from _John Adams'
  Works_                                                             470

  147. The Articles; from the _Revised Statutes of the United
  States_                                                            475


  XXV. The National Domain

  148. The desire for Statehood in the West, and Western
  self-confidence; a statement by a convention of the proposed State
  of Frankland                                                       485

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