Closing, Delaware Constitution

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The Closing of the Delaware Constitution concludes the constitution with a list of presiding delegates, as well as the date and location of the signing.

Closing

	Text of Closing: DONE IN CONVENTION, the Fourth day of June in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Twenty-First. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we have hereunto subscribed our names.

List of Delegates

Delegates: John Biggs, President. Edward G. Bradford Charles B. Evans George H. Murray Martin B. Burris James B. Gilchrist William P. Orr, Jr. William A. Cannon Robert G. Harman Nathan Pratt Paris T. Carlisle, Jr. Edward D. Hearne Charles F. Richards Wilson T. Cavender Andrew J. Horsey Lowder L. Sapp David S. Clark John W. Hering William Saulsbury J. Wilkins Cooch Andrew L. Johnson William T. Smithers Ezekiel W. Cooper Woodburn Martin W. C. Spruance Robert W. Dasey Elias N. Moore Isaac K. Wright Joshua A. Ellegood. Attest: Charles R. Jones, Secretary of C. C. N. B. - John P. Donahoe, a member of the Convention from New Castle County, refused to sign.

See also

• State constitution
• Constitutional article
• Constitutional amendment
• Constitutional revision
• Constitutional convention
• Amendments
  • Initiated constitutional amendment
  • Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment
  • Publication requirements for proposed state constitutional amendments
  • Rules about constitutional conventions in state constitutions
  • State constitutional articles governing state legislatures

External links

Suggest a link

• Current Delaware Constitution
• Delaware Constitution of 1897
• Delaware Constitution of 1776
• Delaware Constitution of 1792
• Delaware Constitution of 1831

Additional reading

• Hoffecker, Carol E. (2004). Democracy in Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware: Cedar Tree Books
• Holland, Randy J.(2002). The Delaware State Constitution: A Reference Guide, Westport, Connecticut: Westport Press
• Martin, Roger A. (1984). A History of Delaware Through its Governors, Wilmington, Delaware: McClafferty Press
• Munroe, John A. (1993). History of Delaware, University of Delaware Press
• Scharf, John Thomas. (1888). History of Delaware 1609-1888, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: L. J. Richards & Co