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- GLC#
- GLC01063
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- September 23, 1789
- Author/Creator
- Fenno, John, 1751-1798
- Title
- Gazette of the United States. [No. XLVII (September 23, 1789)]
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 41.5 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Reports on the Senate proceedings and prints twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution, an early form of the Bill of Rights. Reports on a debate in the House of Representatives on judicial salaries. Contains news from Europe, including the French Revolution, with a report on France's new Constitution. Features a continuation of a printing of "The Right Constitution of a Common Wealth Examined." Also contains a continuation of Noah Webster's criticisms of Edward Gibbon's "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
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