Excerpt from A Brief View of the Influences That Moved in the Adoption of the Federal Constitution by the State of New Hampshire: Annual Address Before the Grafton and Cooes Counties (N. H.) Bar Association, at the Meeting Held at Berlin, January 27, 1899 Another standard authority, published separately as well as in connection with Elliot's work, is the Journal of the Federal Convention, kept by James Madison. A recent edition is by E. H. Scott, 1893. The New Hampshire Convention has place in Elliot's work, vol. 2, pp. 203, 204. Another important publication has recently (1894) emanated from the state department. It is the Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States of America, 1787-1870, derived from the Records, Manuscripts, and Rolls deposited in the Bureau of Rolls and Library of the Department of State, vol. 1, pp. V, 382; vol. 2, pp. Iv, 897. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.