[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bill of Rights" (U.S.)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Bill of Rights (OED, 2.b., 1819)

1799 Asale Harris _Letter to John Adams_ 12 Sept. (Founders Online)  We are Natives of the United States of America their Bread & Born under our National Independence federal Constitution the Bill of Rights.

Fred Shapiro

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