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Pendleton, Edmund (1721-1803) Amendments proposed to the Bill "to Establish Judicial Courts"

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00099.141.02 Author/Creator: Pendleton, Edmund (1721-1803) Place Written: [Edmundsbury] Type: Autograph manuscript Date: July 1789 Pagination: 2 p. 32 x 21 cm Order a Copy

Madison seems not to have used Pendleton's suggestions in amending the bill, per J.C.A. Stagg.

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