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    <title>United States Constitution collection, 1773-1944 (bulk 1787-1919)</title>
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  <abstract>Reports, notes, journals, letters, memoranda, and printed items documenting the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, the Constitutional Convention (1787), and proposals relating to the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments to the Constitution.  Includes manuscript of the Bill of Rights (1789) signed by Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg and John Adams.  Includes material by Abraham Baldwin, David Brearley, Nicholas Gilman, Jared Ingersoll, Rufus King, James Madison, Edmund Pendleton, and George Washington.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Chiefly photocopies and facsimiles of originals in various repositories, including the Library of Congress. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011228">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011228</note>
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      <namePart>Adams, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1735-1826</namePart>
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      <namePart>Baldwin, Abraham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1754-1807</namePart>
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      <namePart>Brearly, David</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1745-1790</namePart>
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      <namePart>Gilman, Nicholas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1755-1814</namePart>
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      <namePart>Ingersoll, Jared</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1749-1822</namePart>
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      <namePart>King, Rufus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1755-1827</namePart>
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      <namePart>Madison, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1751-1836</namePart>
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      <namePart>Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad</namePart>
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      <namePart>Pendleton, Edmund</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1721-1803</namePart>
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      <namePart>Washington, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1732-1799</namePart>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>1st-10th Amendments.</namePart>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Constitutional Convention</namePart>
      <namePart>(1787)</namePart>
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