Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Observations on the new constitution, and on the Federal and State conventions, by a Columbian patriot

Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814; Towner, Lawrence W. (Lawrence William), 1921-1992 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814 [Dubious author]· 2 chapters· 7,250 words

This pamphlet, first printed in Boston shortly after Massachusetts ratified the Federal Constitution on February 6, 1788, achieved its largest circulation in New York where it was issued both in pamphlet form and in a newspaper series during the spring of that year.[1] At the...