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- GLC#
- GLC09040
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- April 30, 1861
- Title
- Copy of Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 22.6 cm, Width: 13.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Amendment to the Constitution concerning slavery. "...No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions, including that of persons held to labour or service by the laws of said State." Transmitted to the Maryland House of Delegates.
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