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completed her Master of Studies in English Literature at Oxford University in 2018. Lauren started with Quill as a Research Assistant in 2018 and rejoined the team some months later as the project's first Documentary Editor and then its first Senior Documentary Editor. She has worked on several projects during this time, including the 1787 U.S. Constitutional Convention, the 1789 U.S. Bill of Rights, and several U.S. state constitutions. She is currently working on the Constitution of India and the Constitution of Australia projects.
While studying for her undergraduate degree at the University of Alabama, Lauren was involved with the Mill Marginalia Research Project.
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Description: An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
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Description: An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal rights, both civil and legal, to Black Americans, including those who had been emancipated by the thirteenth amendment.
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Description: Twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution, introduced in September 1789 by Congress.
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Description: Grand Convention at Philadelphia, May to September, 1787, Quill Project 2021 Edition.
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Description: The Forum for Political Dialogue met between 1996 and 1998 in Belfast as part of the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement.
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Description: A model of this round of all-party talks, often known as the "Mitchell Talks", is forthcoming in 2025.
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Description: The Forum for Peace and Reconciliation was convened by Irish Government to facilitate political exchanges between Northern Irish parties. A model of this negotiation is under development.
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Description: The International Body on Arms Decommissioning was appointed as part of the twin-track process. It was led by the people who would later become the Independent Chairmen of the 1996-1998 peace talks. They produced the Mitchell report, which set out, amongst other recommendations, a list of principles which all parties signed up to as the basis for the talks.
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Description: IN THE FINAL STAGES OF EDITING A series of talks launched by Peter Brooke, Secretary of State for Northern in Ireland, which began in April 1991, and were carried on intermittently by Brooke and his successor, Patrick Mayhew, until November 1992.
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Description: Following the rejected 'Sioux Falls' Convention of 1885, the South Dakota Convention met and began the drafting process in July of 1889. They used the articles of the Sioux Falls Convention as starting propositions to begin the amendment process. The South Dakota Constitution was ratified in October 1889.
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Description: The Dakotas Joint Committee for the Division of Property began on July 16, 1889 and dissolved on July 31, 1889. It allowed for delegates from both the North and South Conventions to meet in Bismarck and negotiate the splitting of the Territory of Dakota.
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Description: A selection of mini-models designed to provide an insight into the ongoing work of 'Writing Peace' and to demonstrate Quill's approach to visualising the archive material and tracking the process of negotiation. This collection is still under construction.
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Description: Idaho's Constitutional Convention went from July 4, 1889 - August 6, 1889. Using the work that began in the standing committees, drafted reports or articles became the ratified Idaho Constitution in November 1889.
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Description: This negotiation contains a selection of mini-models designed to provide an insight into the ongoing work of PACT and to demonstrate Quill's approach to visualising the archive material and tracking the process of negotiation. It differs from our usual approach in that we will be presenting only certain documents and moments in isolation, rather than including everything tabled during the course of a negotiation. This collection is still under construction, and we will be regularly adding small amounts of new material.
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Description: This negotiation contains a selection of mini-models designed to provide an insight into the ongoing work of PACT and to demonstrate Quill's approach to visualising the archive material and tracking the process of negotiation. It differs from our usual approach in that we will be presenting only certain documents and moments in isolation, rather than including everything tabled during the course of a negotiation. This collection is still under construction, and we will be regularly adding small amounts of new material.
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Description: The PDF scans of the 1911 publication, The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, edited by Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press)
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Description: The ConSource.org edition of Madison's Notes and other papers.
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Description: In 1819 John Quincy Adams oversaw a printed publication of the Journal of the Convention. This is a manuscript copy of the journal from that time, a draft of what was published.
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Description: This collection holds links to the Library of Congress scan of its microfilm photographs of Madison's personal record recording the work of the Constitutional Convention.
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Description: Links to relevant records at e-enlightenment.com
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Description: This collection holds links to images of the Library of Congress copy of Madison's Notes. These colour images were newly available in 2018.
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Description: Report of the Conference Committee regarding the House's disagreement to various proposed Senate amendments to the Constitution
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Description: The Gazette of the United States was a Federalist newspaper in the years of the First Congress. Begun by John Fenno, who served as its editor, the Gazette was published twice weekly, beginning on April 15, 1789. Alexander Hamilton contributed to the paper, both financially and in written content. Senate Secretary Samuel Otis would eventual go on to contract with Fenno to publish various documents for the Senate.
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Description: Links to ConSource editions of Thomas Lloyd's stenographic record of the First House of Representatives.
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Description: Scans of the handwritten Senate Journal for the First Session of the First Congress
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Description: Roger Sherman's proposal in the First Committee on Representation, which demonstrates how Madison's proposed amendments could be amended and included as a supplement to the Constitution.
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Description: Printed version of the Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States: anno M,DCC,LXXXIX, and of the independence of the United States the thirteenth
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Description: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, First Congress, First Session, vol. 1
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Description: The Journal of the Senate, First Congress, First Session, vol. 1
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Description: Jonathan Elliot, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, J.B. Lippincott & co. (Philadelphia: 1836-59).
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Description: 'This [collection] contains the full transcripts of the debates that took place in the Constituent Assembly. The transcripts are divided into 12 volumes, with each volume corresponding to a defined period of time. The volumes are further divided by date, allowing users to refer to all the debates that took place on a specific date.' Hosted on constitutionofindia.net
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Description: Editorial commentaries on the creation of the U.S. Bill of Rights 1789
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Description: A brief exploration of Mary Sarah Bilder's charges that Madison's Notes do not tell the whole truth of the Constitutional Convention.
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