Log In Register

Source & Citation Info

title:“Paine Wingate to Timothy Pickering”
authors:Paine Wingate
date written:1789-3-25
permanent link
to this version:		https://consource.org/document/paine-wingate-to-timothy-pickering-1789-3-25/20130122075828/
last updated:Jan. 22, 2013, 7:58 a.m. UTC
retrieved:April 16, 2024, 11:19 p.m. UTC
transcription
citation:
Wingate, Paine. "Letter to Timothy Pickering." Creating the Bill of Rights. Ed. Kenneth R. Bowling and Helen E. Veit. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 223. Print.
manuscript
source:		 Massachusetts Historical Society

Paine Wingate to Timothy Pickering (March 25, 1789)

1
Nobody thinks that a general convention will be called. Possibly in a convenient time Congress make {may} take up the consideration of amendments or alterations, and may recommend some that may quiet the fears & jealousies of the well designing & not affect the essentials of the present-system: I am rather inclined to suppose that this cannot be attended to immediately, but must be postponed for other more important matters.

Resource Metadata

Type

Document

Date

1789-3-25

Authors

Recipients

Collections

Annotations (1)