Details

Subject(s)

• Virginia—Constitution [Browse]
• Representative government and representation—Virginia [Browse]
• Apportionment (Election law)—Virginia [Browse]
• Proportional representation—Virginia [Browse]
• Virginia—Politics and government—1775-1865 [Browse]
• Washington County (Va.)—Politics and government [Browse]

Related name

• Virginia. General Assembly [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Broadsides [Browse]

Series

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 39096. [More in this series]

Notes

• Requesting the legislature "to recommend to the people of the commonwealth, the election of a convention to alter and amend the defects of the Constitution" to give adequate representation in the General Assembly to western counties.
• Imprint suggested by the Virginia State Library; cf. Virginia imprint series number 1. Preliminary checklist for Abingdon 1807-1876, edited by John Cook Wyllie (Richmond, 1946), p. 8.
• Printed area measures 20.3 x 14.5 cm.

Reproduction note

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 39096).

References

• Shaw & Shoemaker 39096
• Hummel, R.O. Southeastern broadsides, 3307

Other format(s)

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.

Place name(s)

United States Virginia Abingdon.

Other title(s)

Shaw-Shoemaker digital edition

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