Research Guides: Constitution Day 2013: Delaware and the Ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment: Delaware and the Constitution

Delaware

December 7 is observed as "Delaware Day."

Delaware's Signers of the Constitution

Image of Richard Bassett

Richard Bassett

Image of Gunning Bedford, Jr.

Gunning Bedford, Jr.

Image of Jacob Broom

Jacob Broom

Image of John Dickinson

John Dickinson

Image of George Read

George Read

Delaware Celebrates the Constitution

A Letter To The People of The United States, Upon The Propriety of Establishing An Annual National Jubilee, To Commemorate The Adoption of The Constitution of The United States by Connell, John, Citizen of Delaware
Publication Date: 1854
Teaching the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Delaware by State Board of Education (Delaware)
Publication Date: 1924
Marking the 150th Anniversary of The Constitution of The United States And Honoring The Patriotic Delawareans Who Helped To Make It: Richard Bassett, Gunning Bedford, Jr., Jacob Broom, John Dickinson, George Reed by Delaware Constitution Sesqui-Centennial Commission
Publication Date: 1937
Delaware Celebrates the 200th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights: January 28, 1790, December 7 and 15, 1991 by Delaware History Commission

Delaware's Ratifications

Sources

17th Amendment. According to Todd J. Zywicki, Delaware voted to reject the Seventeenth Amendment.

Zywicki, Todd J. "Beyond the Shell and Husk of History: The History of the Seventeenth Amendment and its Implications for Current Reform Proposals," Cleveland State Law Review, 45, p. 199.

The Constitution of the United States of America as Amended: Unratified Amendments: Analytical Index by U.S. Congress. House of Representatives
Pages 2, 13, 18, 26, 27, 29. (p. 18 covers ratification of the 16th Amendment)