OF THE

ORIGIN, FORMATION, AND ADOPTION

OF THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

WITH

NOTICES OF ITS PRINCIPAL FRAMERS.

BY

GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME I. 1/

NEW YORK:

HARPER AND BROTHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1854.

1888, Nor. 28.

Library in U.. S. history.

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ADG 22 1935

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
GEORGE T. CURTIS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts

то

GEORGE TICKNOR, Esq.,

THE HISTORIAN OF SPANISH LITERATURE,

BY WHOSE ACCURATE SCHOLARSHIP AND CAREFUL CRITICISM

THESE PAGES HAVE LARGELY PROFITED,

I DEDICATE THIS WORK,

IN AFFECTIONATE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TIES,

WHICH HAVE BEEN TO ME CONSTANT SOURCES OF HAPPINESS THROUGH MY WHOLE LIFE.