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Subject Area: Political Theory
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Topic: The American Revolution and Constitution

CCCLXII.: Timothy Pitkin: on Signing the Constitution. 3 - Max Farrand, The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 3 [1911]

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The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911). Vol. 3.

Part of: The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 3 vols.

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CCCLXII.

Timothy Pitkin: on Signing the Constitution.3

Of the fifty-five members who attended this convention, thirty-nine signed the constitution: of the remaining sixteen, some in favor of it were obliged from particular business to leave the convention before it was ready for signing. (This, we are assured, was the case with Caleb Strong, of Massachusetts, Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut, and Mr. Davie of North Carolina.)

[3 ]Timothy Pitkin, Political and Civil History of the United States (Copyright, January, 1828), II, 262, note.