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A constitution having been determined upon, a convention assembled for the purpose of framing one, on the 4th of July, 1827; at new Echota. On the 20th] day of July, 1827, this constitution was adopted and it is under this that the Cherokee Government has been administered ever since. Of this instrument, Mr. Blunt in Vol 3 of the American Annual Register, page 78, observes that it "affords another proof of their capacity of self government. Republican in its character. its provisions are better calculated, as expressed in the preamble, "to establish justice, insure tranquility, promote the common welfare, and secure to ourselves and posterity the blessings of liberty," than many of the more elaborate contrivances of their European brethern. The government is representative in its form, and is divided into executive, legislative, and judicial departments. The trial by jury is established; and the particular provisions of the constitution. while they are calculated to accustom the Cherokees to the