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Table Annexed To Article: The Legislative Rules And Orders Of The Continental Congress In Various Text Formats (July 17, 1776), Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Our Constitutional Logic offers the Rules and Orders for the Continental Congress in four versions. First, OCL supplies Jefferson’s notes made for the committee on which he served; this is followed by Congress’ markup text following its consideration of his notes in RC Text Format. Third, the text adopted on July 17, 1776 appears in RC Text Format, which recreates the text as it appears in the Journals of the Continental Congress. Fourth, the Rules and Orders appear in MR Text Format. This text is used in the various investigations of parliamentary science as practiced from 1776 to 1801. See …