It was published in 1819 as a part of Volume I of "Elliot's Debates."
A bill of rights, in which the idea of the rights of man were set forth, was a significant part of nearly all the State constitutions. Englishmen, generally, had been familiar with the formal statement of these principles since 1689, when William and Mary accepted the Declaration of Rights as a condition of their receiving the crown of England. During the same year Parliament gave the Declaration of Rights the form of a statute, under the name of the Bill of Rights. Among other rights it demanded that the king, without the sanction of Parliament, should not raise an army, secure money, or suspend the laws; also, that the right of petition, freedom in the exercise of religion, and equality under the laws were to be granted all subjects.
New York did not choose electors. North Carolina and Rhode Island, as we have seen, had not ratified the Constitution.
The only exceptions to this rule are: Maine holds its election on the second Monday in September, and Vermont on the first Tuesday in November.