Commemoration Ceremony in Honor of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Continental Congress in the United States House of Representatives, September Twenty-Fifth, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Four.

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This document provides a report of activities undertaken at the first official bicentennial celebration by the U.S. Congress in January 1974. The project was initiated to provide commemoration of the First Continental Congress which met in Philadelphia in September 1774. The booklet presents the proceedings of the commemorative ceremony, a description of the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, and the Camerata Chorus of Washington. In the major portion of the booklet, a documentary history of the First Continental Congress is presented. The three sections in the documentary history--Emotional and Intellectual Background of the Congress, The Congress, and Reception of the Measures of Congress--present 14 primary source selections, including speeches, debate notes, memorial addresses, and Congressional records. Participants in the ceremony included Congresswoman Barbara Jordan who gave the opening reading, Professor Cecelia M. Kenyon of Smith College who presented an address titled "Ideological Origins of the First Continental Congress," Professor Merrill Jenson of the University of Wisconsin who spoke on "Historical Origins of the First Continental Congress," Alistair Cooke who gave the principal address, and the Hon. Mike McCormack who presented closing comments. A biographical directory of the First Continental Congress by states, with background sketches of each delegate, is included in the document. (Author/DB)

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