Pennsylvania’s Response to Virginia’s Call for a Second Constitutional Convention

Ratification of the Bill of Rights | Volume XXXVII: Origins | Documents | VII. THE CALL FOR A SECOND CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION | Virginia General Assembly Requests Congress to Call a Second Constitutional Convention, 20 November 1788 | Pennsylvania’s Response to Virginia’s Call for a Second Constitutional Convention

Public Commentaries Private Commentaries Caleb Gibbs to George Washington, Boston, 9 February Benjamin Lincoln to George Washington, Boston, 9 February Henry Van Schaack to Theodore Sedgwick, Pittsfield, 9 February William Widgery to George Thatcher, Boston, 9 February John Quincy Adams Diary, Newburyport, 11 February David Sewall to George Thatcher, York, 11 February John Avery, Jr., to George Thatcher, Boston, 13 February Henry Jackson to Henry Knox, Boston, 13 February Elbridge Gerry Acquiesces to Massachusetts Ratification, 13–28 February Jeremiah Hill to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 14 February Henry Knox to George Washington, New York, 14 February Silas Lee to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 14 February Thomas B. Wait to George Thatcher, Portland, 14 February James Madison to George Washington, New York, 15 February Massachusetts Gazette, 15 February John Quincy Adams to William Cranch, Newburyport, 16 February John Quincy Adams to Oliver Fiske, Newburyport, 17 February Victor DuPont to Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours, New York, 17 February Samuel P. Savage to George Thatcher, Weston, 17 February Independent Chronicle, 21 February Henry Jackson to Henry Knox, Boston, 24 February Samuel Nasson to George Thatcher, Sanford, 26 February William Vassall to John Lowell, Clapham Common, 26 February John Bacon to Elbridge Gerry, Stockbridge, 27 February Nathaniel Barrell of York, Maine, and the Constitution, 27 February–10 March Jeremiah Hill to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 28 February Tristram Dalton to John Langdon, Newburyport, 29 February Silas Lee to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 29 February Thomas B. Wait to George Thatcher, Portland, 29 February § Editors’ Note: A Columbian Patriot: Observations on the Constitution: Boston, February The Massachusetts Reprinting of the Last Letter of John Adams's Defence of the Constitutions, 3–13 March Pennsylvania Mercury, 8 March William Widgery to George Thatcher, Boston, 16 March Jonathan Moore to Elijah Brigham, Rochester, 17 March Massachusetts Centinel, 19 March Silas Lee to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 20 March A Hint, Providence United States Chronicle, 20 March Samuel Nasson to George Thatcher, Boston, 23 March Nathaniel Gorham to Henry Knox, Boston, 25 March Independent Chronicle, 3 April § Editors’ Note: The State Elections, 7 April–29 May Consider Arms, Malachi Maynard, and Samuel Field: Dissent to the Massachusetts Convention and Commentaries upon this Dissent, Hampshire Gazette, 9 April–4 June Elbridge Gerry Responds to Maryland “Landholder” X, American Herald, 18 April Massachusetts Centinel, 7 May Nathan Dane to Samuel Adams, New York, 10 May Hampshire Gazette, 14 May Massachusetts Centinel, 24 May Independent Chronicle, 12 June Massachusetts Centinel, 14 June An Antifederalist, Massachusetts Centinel, 18 June New York Journal, 26 June § Editors’ Note: A Native of Boston: Thoughts Upon the Political Situation of the United States, Worcester, 14 August