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Joe Kelley

 

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 The play on words has to do with power. People constitute constitutions in time and place. The thing constituted is a record of some thing: agreement.

The First State Constitutional Conventions, 1776-1783 Author(s): W. F. Dodd

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1944479?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

The Influences of Pennsylvania's 1776 Constitution on American Constitutionalism During the Founding Decade

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20092180?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents