BIB_ID
116622
Accession number
MA 915
Display Date
[1793] Dec. 2 Monday.
Description
1 item (1 p.) : on parchment ; 53 x 46 cm
Notes
Manuscript signed by Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House, John Adams [not autograph] Vice President, John Beckley, Clerk of the House of Representatives, and Samuel A. Otis, Secretary of the Senate.
Summary
Resolution of Congress proposing to the State Legislatures an Amendment to the Constitution: "The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State or by Citizens or Subjects of any foreign State".
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