To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. We, the subscribers, inhabitants of [blank] in the county of [blank] and commonwealth of Massachusetts, beg leave to represent that, the Constitution of the United States having provided that each state shall appoint electors of president and vice president, "in such manner as the legislature thereof shall direct," ... and whereas we have learned ... that the majorities of our state Senate, and House of Representatives ... without any legislative direction of the manner of appointing electors ... directed the mode of choosing the electors, by meeting in convention for that purpose, and have accordingly in that mode proceeded to make an appointment of the electors. ... we pray that the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in whose presence the electoral votes are to be opened and counted, to take the subject into consideration, and prevent the establishment of so dangerous a precedent.

Bibliographic Details

Corporate Author:	United States. Congress
Format:	Online Book
Language:	English
Published:	s.n., 1829
Series:	Early American imprints.
Subjects:	Massachusetts. General Court. Election law Massachusetts. Electoral college Massachusetts. Massachusetts Politics and government 1775-1865. Broadsides. rbgenr Memorials (Legal) rbgenr
Online Access:	http://ezproxy.villanova.edu/login?URL=http://opac.newsbank.com/select/shaw/21502
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