Motion offered by John Quincy Adams to amend the House Journal to include his statement that the recently passed gag rule was in direct violation of the Constitution, the Rules of the House of Representatives, and the rights of his constituents.; Scope and content: 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.

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