Stephen Higginson To Henry Knox About Forming A Special Convention To Revise The Articles Of Confederation 8 February 1787

Informs Knox that he (Higginson) spoke to Congress, including Mr. Maddison, about forming a special convention to revise the Articles of Confederation. Discusses the need to draft a new document for the basis of government as the Confederation is incompetent to the purposes for which it was established, the managing the affairs of the Union. States that to delegate rights to Congress, and at the same time to withold from them the means of exercising those rights, is trifling and absurd. Watermarked with a IV and a hunting horn inside a crest with GR underneath. Free stamped on address leaf with no signature.