1787–1789
Brutus 3
To the Citizens of the State of New-York. In the investigation of the constitution, under your consideration, great care should be taken, that you do not form your opinions respecting
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To the Citizens of the State of New-York. In the investigation of the constitution, under your consideration, great care should be taken, that you do not form your opinions respecting
Source: Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Held in the Year 1788 and Which Finally Ratified the Constitution of the United States (Boston: William White
Source: Herbert J. Storing, ed., The Complete Anti-Federalist, vol. 2, 136-143. To the Freemen of Pennsylvania Friends, Countrymen and Fellow Citizens, Permit one of yourselves to put you in mind
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 3 [Aug. 21, 1858-Mar. 4, 1860]. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln3 Lincoln, as reported in the Press & Tribune. Douglas, as reported in the Chicago Times. MR. LINCOLN’S
Whereas, Experience has demonstrated that Platforms adopted by the partisan conventions of the country have had the effect to mislead and deceive the people, and at the same time to
Brutus warns the Constitution would centralize power, threatening liberty in an impractically large republic, arguing federal clauses and courts would erode state authority and popular self-government, prompting Federalist rebuttals responses.
Constitution ratification in New York hinged on compromises and amendments.
Virginia’s ratification statement involved compromises over amendments.
1.FAILURE OF THE STATES TO COMPLY WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL REQUISITIONS.1 This evil has been so fully experienced both during the war and since the peace, results so naturally from the
DEAR SIR, MY letters to you last winter, on the subject of a well balanced national government for the United States, were the result of a free enquiry; when I