1842/01/12

       Disenfranchised Electors, of the Independent State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ratify the People’s Constitution (YEA, 13,947; NAY, 52).

       [restored 9/6/2026]

Subsequent Events:

Authority:

Magna Carta, Chapter 13
ccc-2point0.com/magna-carta

unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 2
ccc-2point0.com/unanimous-declaration-of-independence

References:

Marvin E. Gettleman, The Dorr Rebellion: A Study in American Radicalism, 1833-1849, (New York: Random House, 1973), 54.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$40,102,964,278,586

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