The Constitution of New Hampshire as Amended by the Constitutional Convention Held at Concord, on the first Wednesday of December, 1876.

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA)

Edward A. Jenks

Concord

1877

pp. 31. Original printed wrappers. 8vo. * Accompanied by: State of New Hampshire. In Constitutional Convention, Held at Concord, on the first Wednesday of December, A.D. 1876. Single page.

The amendment which finally ended political inequality for the Jews of the United States. First edition of the amended Constitution, along with the ballot containing thirteen questions relating to the proposed constitutional amendments submitted to voters by the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention of 1876. In 1797 Solomon Etting and Bernard Gratz petitioned the Maryland legislature requesting that Jews ''be placed on the same footing as other good citizens.'' Eighty years later, by removing restrictive religious qualifications from its constitution of 1784, New Hampshire became the last and final State to provide Jews with political equality, so marking the end of political discrimination against Jews in the United States.