Constitution of the State of Alabama, 1819 - preamble and boundaries

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This congressional printing preserves Alabama's 1819 constitution. The selected opening sets out the convention's stated purposes and historical boundary description. December 6 is the title-leaf congressional printing date, not presented here as the convention's adoption date. The original includes slavery provisions and racial exclusions elsewhere; the preamble must not be read as evidence of equal rights for all residents in practice. This is a historical text, not current law.

Date

1819-12-06

Credits

Alabama constitutional convention; U.S. House of Representatives (printing order)

Publisher

Gales & Seaton, Washington; printed by order of the House of Representatives

Where to find it

All 24 supplied PDF pages preserved unchanged. Checked excerpt consists of title leaf and printed page 3; remaining constitutional text is available in the original with unverified embedded OCR. Image PDF: 2 pages; Text PDF: 1 pages.

Reference collection

Library of Congress, U.S. Congressional Serial Set

AI-assisted transcription visually compared with the selected source images by Codex; no independent human proofread. Bracketed text is editorial. The source scan remains authoritative. Complete selected paragraph checked visually; historical spelling Gulph retained. Line-end hyphens joined and typography regularized.

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