Jonathan Elliot (1784–1846) was a 19th-century American historian who produced two influential collections of documents connected with the early American republic. The first was a five-volume collection entitled The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (commonly called Elliot's Debates), which encompassed the time between the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the opening of the government under the newly ratified constitution in 1789.
Jonathan Elliot (1784–1846) was a notable American historian who produced two influential collections of documents concerning the early American republic. His first publication, "The Debates," consisted of five volumes and spanned the time between the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and the commencement of government under the newly ratified constitution in 1789.