On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Committee of Inspection and Observation of the City of Philadelphia submitted an “address” to the Continental Congress responding to the “Remonstrance” that the Pennsylvania Assembly had submitted to Congress the previous day. The Assembly was requesting the Congress to ignore the Committee’s demand that the Assembly be disbanded. The Committee’s address asserted that the writers of the Remonstrance were “those who have uniformly opposed every measure adopted by the Congress (petitions to the king excepted) or by those who have published testimonies manifestly injurious.” Essentially the Committee of Inspection accused the Assembly of being dominated by Loyalists, an accusation that was, to some extent, true. Prior rounds in the contest between the Assembly and the Committee of Inspection were covered in my posts for May 16 and 18, 1776.

Source: Paul Leicester Ford, “The Adoption of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776”, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Sep. 1895) at 445 accessed at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2139954?seq=20