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Title: COSPA_Artifact_Compendium
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The COS PA Artifact Compendium
Table of Contents:
Tools and Mechanics
PA COS Teamup Calendar
Slack
Talk Slide Decks
Other Helpful Tools
Follow-Up
YouTube
PA Application
General Article V Info
Article V Information Center
Faithful Delegate Laws
Opposition to COS
■ Publius Huldau (Joanna Martin) - - - > Slight of hand of Publius Huldau
■ Pennsylvania Eagle Forum
Responding to Opposition
Support for COS
Steve Davies's (previous State Director) Responses to Opposition
Supporting but different interpretations of Article V
COS 2022 Summer Speaker Series
● Instructions to the Delegates for the Philadelphia Federal Conventions (EVERY STATES ORIGINAL TEXT)
● Endorsements
PA Hearings
Podcast
● 08/16/22 - Jared Bill on The Kings Report
● 05/31/23 - Jared Bill on COS Live
Legislator Handouts
Convention Mechanics
Convention Simulation
Additional Information
Constitution
Analysis and Interpretation (Big Constitution Book)
Appendix
Colonial America Timeline
1492 - Columbus sights land
1499 - First English Voyage to New Found Land
1570-1600 - 6 nations of Iroquois Confederacy Impacts Ben Franklin
1584 - Second English Voyage
1585 - Creation and destruction of first English Settlement - Roanoke Island
1607 - Jamestown Colony, established
1609 - The Starving Time
1614 - First shipment of Nicotiana tabaccum
1618 - The first plantation was Martin’s Hundred
1619 - First documented arrival of African slaves to Virginia
1622 - Powhatan Wars
1626 - Tobacco Boom
1629 - Charter of Massachusetts Bay
1630 - The Great Migration
1636 - Pequot War
1640 - The Beaver Wars, and Iroquois Confederacy
American Revolutonary Timeline
1691 - Massachusetts’ 1691 charter
1774 - Intolerable Acts & First Continental Congress
1775 - Battle of Lexington and Concord - Start of Revolutionary War
1776 - Declaration of Independence is SIgned
1783 - Rev War ends, Washington retires…again
1785 - Mount Vernon Convention
1786 - Annapolis Convention
1787 - Federal/Philadelphia Convention
1788 - New Hampshire ratifies and becomes the ninth
1794 - Whiskey Rebellion
1798 - George Washington Inauguration
1799 - Washington dies
Post-Revolutionary Timeline
1803 - Louisiana Purchase
1831 - Nat Turner Rebellion
1833 - Britain Ends Slavery
1850 - Compromise of 1850
1854-1859 - Bleeding Kansas
1860 - Civil War in 59 minutes
1862 - Emancipation Proclamation
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg
1865 - Lincoln Assassinated & 13th amendment to the constitution was passed banning slavery
%%**%%History Videos
The Presidents Timeline
PA Meeting Minutes of Importance
PA Region 1 & 2 Meetings (Meeting Minutes Doc)
Tools and Mechanics
PA COS Teamup Calendar
Slack
- PA Slack workspace COSPA
Talk Slide Decks
Other Helpful Tools
Follow-Ups
YouTube:
- How to adjust the playback speed of youtube videos (faster or slower viewing)
- Great for training videos from our southern friends. ;)
PA Application
General Article V Info
- Rob Natelson - State Initiation of Constitutional Amendments (Book can be ordered here)
Article V Information Center
Faithful Delegate Laws
Opposition to COS
Publius Huldau (Joanna Martin) - - - > Slight of hand of Publius Huldau
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- John Birch-Society
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Pennsylvania Eagle Forum
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- There is a claim that we have prepared constitutions to be put in place at the convention. This stems from the fact that one of our board members participated in this Constitution Drafting Exercise done by the National Constitution Center
Responding to Opposition
Support for COS
Instructions to the Delegates for the Philadelphia Federal Conventions (EVERY STATES ORIGINAL TEXT)
Steve Davies's (previous State Director) Responses to Opposition
Supporting but different interpretations of Article V
COS 2022 Summer Speaker Series
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Endorsements
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PA Hearings
Podcast
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08/16/22 - Jared Bill on The Kings Report
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05/31/23 - Jared Bill on COS Live
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Legislator Handouts
Convention Mechanics
Convention Simulation
Additional Information
- Convention Rules (Legacy)
Constitution
Analysis and Interpretation (Big Constitution Book)
Appendix
Colonial America Timeline
1492 - Columbus sights land
1499 - First English Voyage to New Found Land
1570-1600 - 6 nations of Iroquois Confederacy Impacts Ben Franklin
- List of conventions (early conventions were used to meet with the Native Americans 1677-1768).
1584 - Second English Voyage
1585 - Creation and destruction of first English Settlement - Roanoke Island
- April 9, 1585 - 600 English soldiers and sailors in seven ships sailed from Plymouth, England in an attempt to establish the first English colony in North America.
- June 23rd - Arrival off coast of cape Fear - Creation and destruction of first English Settlement - Roanoke Island
1607 - Jamestown Colony, established
- Jamestown Colony, established. It was a commercial undertaking (The Virginia Company), set up by merchants seeking riches and nobles promoting royal ambition
- The company that founded the colony restructured itself repeatedly, trying to find an organization that fit the geography and the people who lived there. Ultimately the colony was held together by tobacco.
1609 - The Starving Time
- The Company abolished the royal council in England and placed the colony in the hands of a governor with absolute authority. (The king had removed himself from the company’s affairs, in part so he could disavow the operation if it overly antagonized Spain
1614 - First shipment of Nicotiana tabaccum
- The first shipment of Nicotiana tabaccum (Rolfe - West Indian Tobacco) reached england to big success, kicking of “company” plantations
1618 - The first plantation was Martin’s Hundred
- Leadership of the company changed. The new treasurer, Edwin Sandys (1561–1629), began making land grants for “private plantations,” each of which was to include a town. The first plantation was Martin’s Hundred, owned by a corporation in England
1619 - First documented arrival of African slaves to Virginia
1622 - Powhatan Wars
1626 - Tobacco Boom
- Tobacco Boom - the colonists sent 260,000 pounds of tobacco to England. The output would multiply over the following decades
1629 - Charter of Massachusetts Bay
1630 - The Great Migration
1636 - Pequot War
1640 - The Beaver Wars, and Iroquois Confederacy
American Revolutonary Timeline
1691 - Massachusetts’ 1691 charter
- November 3 - Massachusetts’ 1691 charter
1774 - Intolerable Acts & First Continental Congress
- March 31 - Intolerable Acts - Boston Port Act
- October 14 - First Continental Congress - Declaration and Resolves
- Recommendation to meet again at the same time next year
1775 - Battle of Lexington and Concord - Start of Revolutionary War
- April 19th - Before they met again, the Battle of Lexington and Concord occurred and the Revolutionary war began
1776 - Declaration of Independence is SIgned
- July 4th - Declaration of Independence is SIgned
1783 - Rev War ends, Washington retires…again
- Washington retires…again, cementing him as an American legend. He will not remain, in retirement, however.
1785 - Mount Vernon Convention
- Virginia and Maryland agree to share the Potomac river and make it available for US citizens
- Agreed to invite other states to future conventions
1786 - Annapolis Convention
- Sheas Rebellion this article also has some info about other uprisings
- Virginia Legislature, building on the mount Vernon compact, calls a national convention
- Nine (out of 13) states appointed commissioners
- 4 were tardy
- The 5 present drafted The Report of the Annapolis Conference and adjourned
1787 - Federal/Philadelphia Convention
- Instructions to the Convention Delegates (EVERY STATES ORIGINAL TEXT)
- Constitution - Delegate Vote Breakdown (11 out of 13 passed)
- Arguments that the delegates acted within power when forming the constitution
- Audio Reading (listen & watch)
- Audio Reading (listen & watch)
- Pieces of some of the articles carried over to the new constitution
- Article IV
- Article VI
- Article IX
- Some of the delegates sent to the convention also served in the Continental Congress (Delegates at 1787 convention / 1787 Continental Congress)
| * Connecticut - William S. Johnson * Georgia - Abraham Baldwin * Georgia - William Pierce * Massachusetts - Nathaniel Gorham * Massachusetts - Rufus King * New Hampshire - Nicholas Gilman * New Hampshire - John Langdon * New Jersey - Abraham Clark (not present) | * New Jersey - Jonathan Dayton * North Carolina - William Blount * North Carolina - Hugh Williamson * Pennsylvania - James Wilson * South Carolina - Pierce Butler * South Carolina - Charles Pinckney * Virginia - Richard Henery Lee * Virginia - James Madison |
- Continental Congress 1787
- The Pinckney Plan (1787) - Early source of the idea for article 5
- “If Two Thirds of the Legislatures of the States apply for the same The Legislature of the United States shall call a Convention for the purpose of amending the Constitution — Or should Congress with the Consent of Two thirds of each house propose to the States amendments to the same — the agreement of Two Thirds of the Legislatures of the States shall be sufficient to make the said amendments Parts of the Constitution The Ratifications of the Conventions of NA States shall be sufficient for organizing this Constitution”
- Paper printing wars
- Opposition of ratification
1788 - New Hampshire ratifies and becomes the ninth
- June 21 - New Hampshire ratifies and becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution transforming the Continential Congress into the Confederated Congress.
- Nov 20 - Virginia, having just ratified the constitution, and prior to it being formally ratified by all, makes the first ever call for a convention of states to propose amendments
1794 - Whiskey Rebellion
1798 - George Washington Inauguration
- April 30 - First President Sworn in - George Washington Inauguration timeline
1799 - Washington dies
Post-Revolutionary Timeline
1803 - Louisiana Purchase
- States Added: Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma along with most of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Minnesota
1831 - Nat Turner Rebellion
- August 31 - Nat Turner Rebellion
1833 - Britain Ends Slavery
- 28th August 1833 - Britain Ends Slavery - The Slavery Abolition Law would finally be enacted, after years of campaigning, suffering and injustice. This act was a crucial step in a much wider and ongoing process designed to bring an end to the slave trade.
1850 - Compromise of 1850
1854-1859 - Bleeding Kansas
1860 - Civil War in 59 minutes
- Lincoln Elected
1862 - Emancipation Proclamation
- September 22, 1862 - President Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that enslaved people in those states or parts of states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be declared free. One hundred days later, with the rebellion unabated, President issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious areas “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg
- July 1st - Battle of Gettysburg
1865 - Lincoln Assassinated & 13th amendment to the constitution was passed banning slavery
- April 14 - Lincoln Assassinated
%%**%%History Videos
The Presidents Timeline
PA Meeting Minutes of Importance
PA Region 1 & 2 Meetings (Meeting Minutes Doc)
- All recordings are in the meeting minutes doc