The Seventh Confederation Congress defeats a motion of censure against the Constitutional Convention for having exceeded its mandate by recommending the Articles of Confederation be scrapped. Instead Congress proposes the Constitution for the united States for ratification by State ratifying conventions; any nine of the 13 will put the Constitution into force.
[restored 9/26/2021]
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Authority:
Articles of Confederation, Article XIII
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References:
“Chronology of Events, 1774-1804,” from The Debate on the Constitution, two volumes, Bernard Bailyn, ed., (New York: Library of America, 1992), 2:1062.
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 40.
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