House Unpassed Legislation 1877, referred to next General Court, SC1/series 230, Petition of William B. Earle

Petition subject: Constitutional convention Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763602 Date of creation: 1877-02-27 Petition location: Needham Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James Mackintosh, Needham; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:William B. Earle Actions taken on dates: 1877-02-27,1877-02-28 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 27, 1877 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 28, 1877 and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizen, resident Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Bill of rights, liberties, rights, privileges, republican government, president, congress, supreme court, additional documents include letter, correspondence from William B. Earle on hearing, Wendell Phillips, ["That the Constitution of the United States, from its adoption up to date, was and is a patchwork series of compromises, entered into in the vain and wicked hope that those who wished to secure the blessings of liberty to the entire people of this country and their posterity, might and would be bound up in a peaceful and fraternal union with those who were determined to extend and perpetuate the evils and curses of slavery over the same people and posterity"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1877, referred to next General Court Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.