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Introduction
In this letter, Thomas Dorr offers Dutee Pearce a town-by-town breakdown of the vote on the Landholders’ “Tory constitution,” the rival constitution that emerged from the General Assembly in 1841-42. Dorr sees the vote against the document as proof of the supremacy of the People’s Constitution which was, in his mind, ratified in late December 1841. The “Tory constitution,” also known as the Landholders’ Constitution, was narrowly defeated by 676 votes out of 16,702 votes cast. Dorr never spent much time dwelling on this important fact.