Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 2

Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 2

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Jackson, Johnathan | An argument in favor of adopting the Constitution

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Jackson, Johnathan

Thoughts upon the Political Situation of the United States of America, in which that of Massachusetts is more particularly considered; with Some Observations on the Constitution for a Federal Government, Addressed to the People of the Union. Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1788


8vo (225 x 142 mm). Some foxing, offsetting, and minor browning. Contemporary blue wrappers; spine perished, staining and chipping. In custom card case.


First edition. "Jackson arrives in a most leisurely manner at his conclusion that the Constitution should be ratified. ... [H]e condemns opulence and drunkenness as unbecoming to a republic, and warns the country to be on guard against European influence in either politics or fashion" (Streeter).


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ESTC W28300; Evans 21173; Howes J23; Federal Hundred 18 (note); Sabin 35441; Streeter 2:1051


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