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Ir 1870 he came to America. After various vici itudes he retired to a farm in Pennsylvania, where he died. He excelled in melodrama. Feckenham (fek'en-am), or Fecknam (fek'nam), John de. Born in Feckenham Forest, Worcesters hire, about 1518: died at Wisbeach, Cambridge shire, 1585. An English Roman Catholic divine, last abbot of Westminster (1556). He was private chaplain and confe or to Queen Feckenham Mary. During the persecution of the Protestants he was much occupied with striving to convert them, and, failing in this, he often befriended them. Federal Constitution, The. The fundamental or organic law of the United States. It was framed by the Constitutional Convention which met in and it went into effect March 4, 1789, having been ratified by eleven of the thirteen States, the others, North Caro lin a and Rhode Island, ratifying it Nov. 21, 1789, and May 29, 1790, respectively.