1789-07-28

Congress of the United States. In the House of Representatives, Tuesday, the 28th of July, 1789.

The committee report records an intermediate formulation of warrant protections during the drafting of the Bill of Rights.

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Report of the Committee of Eleven, July 28, 1789, printed page 2. Library of Congress, exhibit 82.00.01, digital image us0082_1.
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Proposed insertion in Article I, section 9 addressing warrants, probable cause, oath or affirmation, and particular description. Heading transcribed as 28th from the document text. LOC’s related transcription metadata says 27th; preserve that discrepancy as a catalog note. The locally preserved historical image shows the first page. The LOC PDF is a modern transcription, not an original scan. Archival links: Original-printing record and image links: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/creating-the-united-states/formation-of-political-parties.html#obj4 LOC transcription PDF: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/rbc/rbpe/rbpe21/rbpe211/21101200/21101200.pdf

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1789-07-28
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House Committee of Eleven; reported by John Vining; attested by John Beckley
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Contemporary printing: New York, Thomas Greenleaf, 1789

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Unmodified LOC reproduction of the FIRST printed page, digital ID us0082. The local filename is an acquisition label, not document pagination. LOC’s full three-page modern transcription PDF is preserved locally, alongside the first page of the historical printing (digital ID us0082). The second historical page (us0082_1) could not be downloaded. The printing visibly dates itself July 28; the related transcription metadata says July 27. Follow-up preservation update, 12 October 2026: Both historical printing pages (LOC us0082 and us0082_1) and the full three-page modern LOC transcription are preserved locally. The printing dates itself July 28, 1789; the related modern transcription metadata says July 27.

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Report of the Committee of Eleven, July 28, 1789, printed page 2. Library of Congress, exhibit 82.00.01, digital image us0082_1.

Report of the Committee of Eleven, July 28, 1789, printed page 2. Library of Congress, exhibit 82.00.01, digital image us0082_1. Source download: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/creating-the-united-states/BillofRights/FormationofPoliticalParties/Assets/us0082_1_725.jpg Downloaded 12 October 2026; bytes preserved unchanged. SHA-256: 256ccf98c725b7524998b884b545f269934c2dc84303b25b38e949b12ca7411d. No claim of independently proofread embedded OCR.

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Contemporary printing: New York, Thomas Greenleaf, 1789. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress. Report/extract from the House Journal.

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