Excerpt from Journal of Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of Delegates Chosen to Revise the Constitution of Massachusetts: Begun and Holden at Boston, November 15, 1820, and Continued by Adjournment to January 9, 1821 It has been considered important by the Editors that no mate rial alterations should be made in the text. Although there are, perhaps, some portions of the Volume which possess less general interest at the present time than others, and might have been omitted without detracting from its value, and although, from the haste with which the original report was prepared, there were doubtless some expressions in it which might have been improved upon a careful revision, the Editors, nevertheless, thought that the confidence of the public would be justly shaken in the accuracy of the volume, as a true record of the proceedings of the Convem tion, if it were not the same as that printed contemporaneously with its sittings, the errors of which, if any existed would have then been immediately exposed. 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.