A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation includes the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774‐89); the Letters of Delegates to Congress (1774‐89); Farrand's Records (the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787), Elliot's Debates (the Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787‐88)); the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789‐1875) and the Senate (1789‐1875), including the Senate Executive Journal (1789‐1875); the Journal of William Maclay (1789‐91), senator from Pennsylvania in the 1st Congress; the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress (1789‐1824), the Register of Debates (1824‐37), the Congressional...