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Special Exhibition Of Documents To Highlight Constitution Week

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  • Sussex County Petition for Paper Currency (circa 1787)
  • John Dickinson’s Report from the Annapolis Convention (Sept. 14, 1786)
  • Act of the Delaware House of Assembly to nominate and elect Deputies to attend the Constitutional Convention (February 3, 1787)
  • Letter from Charles Thomson stating support of Continental Congress for a Constitutional Convention (February 21, 1787)
  • Letter from Charles Thomson, Secretary of Congress, containing the report (the United States Constitution) from the Convention “lately assembled in Philadelphia.” (September 28, 1787)
  • Delaware House of Assembly Resolution calling for the election of delegates to Delaware’s Constitutional Ratification Convention (November 7, 1787)
  • A Petition to the Delaware General Assembly in support of the ratification of the Constitution (October 24, 1787)
  • A Petition to the Delaware General Assembly in support of establishing the Nation’s Capital in Delaware (October 24, 1787)
  • Receipt for Expenses at the Ratification Convention (December 7, 1787)
  • Receipt for Expenses at the Ratification Convention (December 7, 1787)
  • Receipt for Expenses at the Ratification Convention (December 7, 1787)
  • Auditor of Accounts Waste Book noting state government expenses for the Ratification Convention (December 7, 1787)
  • Letter from Charles Thomson, Secretary of Congress, announcing an Act of the United States Congress to put the operation of the ratified Constitution into operation (September 13, 1788)
  • Act of Congress to establish Government under the new Constitution (September 13, 1788)
  • George Read, Delaware Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
  • Gunning Bedford Jr., Delaware Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
  • John Dickinson, Delaware Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
  • Richard Bassett, Delaware Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
  • Jacob Broom, Delaware Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia

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