Motion to Revise the Constitution of Virginia.

• imprint_number: 1789.022
• title: Extract from the journal of the House of Delegates, on Tuesday the 8th of December, 1789.
• sequence_number: 22
• year: 1789
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: John Dixon
• author: Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates.
• notes: Proposed resolution of the House suggesting a state-wide convention to bring the Virginia constitution in line with the new Federal one, largely by restricting the power of legislature; House orders motion printed and circulated within the state for consideration at an ensuing session of Assembly.
  Sheet lacks printer credit; typography matches that seen in journal of the House of Delegates for this day of the session, published later by John Dixon, then printer to the Commonwealth; hence the attribution here.
  
  
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  • John Dixon Sr.

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