Delaware Constitution of 1792
The Delaware Constitution of 1792 was the second governing document for Delaware state government. The Constitution was in effect from its adoption, on June 12, 1792, until it was replaced, on December 2, 1831, by a new Constitution.
Members of the Delaware Constitutional Convention of 1792. The Convention convened in 1792 and adjourned June 12, 1792.
- Thomas Montgomery, President
- Robert Armstrong
- Andrew Barratt
- Richard Bassett
- John W. Batson
- Isaac Beauchamp
- John M. Clayton
- Isaac Cooper
- Robert Coram
- John Dickinson
- Benjamin Dill
- Manlove Emerson
- Robert Haughey
- Kensey Johns
- William Johnson
- George Mitchell
- Henry Molleston
- George Monro
- James Morris
- Daniel Polk
- Nicholas Ridgely
- Edward Roche
- Rhoads Shankland
- Thomas White
References
- Hoffecker, Carol E. (2004). Democracy in Delaware. Cedar Tree Books, Wilmington. ISBN 1-892142-23-6.
- Munroe, John A. (1993). History of Delaware. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 0-87413-493-5.
- Martin, Roger A. (1984). A History of Delaware Through its Governors. McClafferty Press, Wilmington.
- Scharf, John Thomas. (1888). History of Delaware 1609–1888. 2 vols. L. J. Richards & Co., Philadelphia.
- Delaware Code Annotated (1975). Constitution of the State of Delaware. Michie Company, Charlottesville.
See also
- Delaware Constitution of 1776
- Delaware Constitution of 1831
- Delaware Constitution of 1897, current
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John Dickinson
- 5th President of Pennsylvania, 1782–1785
- 5th President of Delaware, 1781–1783
- Second Continental Congress, 1775–1776, 1779–1781
- First Continental Congress, 1774
- Stamp Act Congress, 1765
United States
- Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765)
- Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767, 1768)
- "The Liberty Song" (1768
- United we stand, divided we fall)
- Petition to the King (1774)
- Signee, Continental Association (1774)
- Pennsylvania Committee of Correspondence (1774–1776)
- "Letter to the inhabitants of the Province of Quebec" (1774)
- Olive Branch Petition (1775)
- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (co-wrote, 1775)
- Committee of Secret Correspondence (1775–1776)
- Model Treaty committee (1776)
- Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (1776, drafting committee chairman)
- President, Annapolis Convention (1786)
- Delegate, Constitutional Convention (1787)
- Brigadier General, Pennsylvania militia
- Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783
- Delaware Constitution of 1792
- Mary Norris Dickinson (wife)
- Philemon Dickinson (brother)
- Early life
- Poplar Hall home
- Fair Hill estate
- Friends Burial Ground
- Dickinson College
- Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University
- John Dickinson High School
- 1776 (1969 musical,
- 1972 film)
- John Adams (2008 miniseries)
- Sons of Liberty (2015 miniseries)