The legislature of the Independent State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations passes the Pardon Act, offering forgiveness to all State sovereign Citizens who participated in the attempt to overthrow the State government, during the Dorr Rebellion.
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Authority:
Rhode Island Constitution, of 1842, Article IX, Section 9
en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Federal_and_State_Constitutions/Constitution_of_Rhode_Island%E2%80%941842
References:
Marvin E. Gettleman, The Dorr Rebellion: A Study in American Radicalism, 1833-1849, (New York: Random House, 1973), 173.
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