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Constantine Gutzman <[log in to unmask]>
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From: "Paul Finkelman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: henry and "a rat"


> Does anyone have hand a cite for Patrick Henry's "I smelt a rat"
> statement about why he did not go to the constitutional convention.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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> Paul Finkelman
> Chapman Distinguished Professor
> University of Tulsa College of Law
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Hugh Blair Grigsby, _The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788_
(2 volumes, 1890; reprinted as two volumes bound in one, New York: DaCapo
Press, 1969).1:32, n. 36.
Prof. Constantine Gutzman
Department of History
John Jay College, CUNY

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