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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  The "gag rule" resolution that Adams is protesting stated that "All petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatsoever, to the subject of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that on further action whatever shall be had thereon."</li></ul></div>
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Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848, Author (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.archives.gov/person/1410489">NARA record: 1410489</a>)<br></div>
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