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Petition subject: Constitutional convention

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763573

Date of creation: 1878-02-05

Petition location: Peabody

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James J.H. Gregory, Essex; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. William Giles Dix

Actions taken on dates: 1878-02-07,1878-02-08

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 7, 1878 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 8, 1878 and concurred

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Unique text, for a convention of representation of the people of the United States for the purpose of forming a new national constitution, structure, government, national sovereignty, organic law, Civil War, state sovereignty, feudalism, cruelty, crime, age of nationality, federal constitution, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Republican, Democrat, National Party, religious, federal congress, Philadelphia, ["…is probably the only one in universal history, which left the cause of conflict as strong and as dangerous as ever..."]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1878, committee on federal relations - leave to withdraw

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.