Source: The Declaration as Adopted by Congress, [6 July 1775], Founders Online, National Archives). https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0113-0005 IF IT was possible for men, who exercise their reason, to believe that the Divine Author of
Source: Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of John Dickinson (Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1895), 1:312–22. https://archive.org/details/writingsofjohndi00dickrich/page/312 My dear countrymen, There is another late act of Parliament, which appears
The Consequences involvd in the Motion now lying before You are of such Magnitude, that I tremble under the oppressive Honor of sharing in its Determination. I feel Myself unequal
OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION. Some of our fellow-citizens have ventured to predict the future fate of United America, if the system proposed to us, shall
OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION. It has been considered, what are the rights to be contributed, and how they are to be managed; and it has
OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION. Another question remains. How are the contributed rights to be managed? The resolution has been in great measure anticipated, by what
OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION. But besides the objections originating from the before mentioned cause, that have been called local, there are other objections that are
OBSERVATIONS on the CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION. The Constitution proposed by the Federal Convention now engages the fixed attention of America. Every person appears to be affected. Those
“John Dickinson to Polly Dickinson,” In Supplement to Max Farrand’s The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, edited by James H. Hutson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. https://consource.org/document/john-dickinson-to-polly-dickinson-1787-6-15/20130122080840/. …The Convention
Dear Sir, Yesterday I was prevented by a severe Headache from attending in the Convention, and I am now setting off for Wilmington. Some person mentioned to Me, that the
