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title:“Tucker and Gerry Amendments”
authors:Anonymous
date written:1789-8-22
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"Tucker and Gerry Amendments." Creating the Bill of Rights. Ed. Kenneth R. Bowling and Helen E. Veit. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 36. Print.
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source:		 House of Representatives Journal

Tucker and Gerry Amendments (August 22, 1789)

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ARTICLE I. section 8. clause 9. Strike out the words, "tribunals inferior to the supreme court," and insert the words, "courts of admiralty."
2
In the third section of the sixth article, insert the word, "other," between the word "no," and the word "religious."
3
That Congress erect no company of merchants with exclusive advantages of commerce.
4
Congress shall at no time consent that any person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall accept of a title of nobility, or any other title or office from any king, prince, or foreign state.

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