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SYMBOLS
Boyd
Conley, Democracy
in Decline
DHFFC
DHFFE
Evans
Farrand
JCC
Polishook
Rutland, Madison
Smith, Letters
Staples
Thorpe
CC
Julian P. Boyd et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas
Jefferson (Princeton, N.J., 1950-).
Patrick T. Conley, Democracy in Decline: Rhode Is-
land's Constitutional Development, 1776-1841
(Providence, 1977).
Linda Grant De Pauw, Charlene Bangs Bickford,
Kenneth R. Bowling, et al., eds., Documentary
History of the First Federal Congress of the United
States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791
(Baltimore, 1972-).
Merrill Jensen, Robert A. Becker, and Gordon
DenBoer, eds., The Documentary History of the
First Federal Elections, 1788-1790 (4 vols., Madi-
son, Wis., 1976-1989).
Charles Evans, American Bibliography (12 vols.,
Chicago, 1903-1934).
Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Con-
vention of 1787 (3rd ed., 3 vols., New Haven,
1927).
Worthington C. Ford et al., eds., Journals of the
Continental Congress, 1774-1789 ... (34 vols.,
Washington, D.C., 1904-1937).
Irwin H. Polishook, Rhode Island and the Union,
1774-1795 (Evanston, Ill., 1969).
Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James
Madison, Volumes VIII-XVII (Chicago and
Charlottesville, Va., 1973-1991).
Paul H. Smith, ed., Letters of Delegates to Congress,
1774-1789 (26 vols., Washington, D.C., 1976-
2000).
William R. Staples, Rhode Island in the Continental
Congress, 1765-1790 ... (edited by Reuben Al-
dridge Guild, Providence, 1870).
Francis N. Thorpe, ed., The Federal and State Con-
stitutions ... (7 vols., Washington, D.C., 1909).
Cross-references to Volumes of
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
References to Commentaries on the Constitution are
cited as "CC" followed by the number of the
document. For example: "CC:25."
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