Ratification of the Constitution Indexes | Index to Volumes 4–7: Ratification of the Constitution by the States: Massachusetts | A | Adams, John (Braintree)
Convention Debates, 30 January, A.M. [Ratification by the States 6:1372 n.]
William Cushing: Undelivered Speech, c. 4 February [Ratification by the States 6:1440 n.]
– id. [1 reference]
– said to oppose Constitution [2 references]
– criticized for contradictory positions on slave trade [1 reference]
– describes “Caucus Club” of pre-Revolutionary Boston [1 reference]
– discussion over whether he would support new Constitution [1 reference]
– discussion whether he should retire [1 reference]
– favors ratification and subsequent amendments [2 references]
– illness of [2 references]
– sent copy of Constitution [2 references]
– Jackson uses in A Native of Boston [1 reference]
– King says he is not a partisan or blind admirer of Constitution [1 reference]
– negotiates Dutch loan [3 references]
– not a delegate to Constitutional Convention [1 reference]
– opinion of on Constitution sought [2 references]
– plans to return to United States [2 references]
– as possible first U.S. vice president [1 reference]
– praise of for virtue [3 references]
– praises British Constitution [2 references]
– praises Mass. navigation act [2 references]
– and Mass. constitution of 1780 [3 references]
– as U.S. minister to Great Britain [2 references]
– will attend second Constitutional Convention if Constitution is not ratified [1 reference]
– letters from [4 references + 2 subentries]
– letters to [2 references + 2 subentries]
– Defence of the Constitutions [10 references + 4 subentries]
– diary of, quoted [1 reference]