![]() ![]() Added here is the complete text of the Constitution, headed "Articles of the New Constitution," with the accompanying resolutions of the Constitutional Convention (vol.2, pp.-384). "ONE OF THE NEW NATION'S MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OF GOVERNMENT" ( Printing and the Mind of Man)įIRST EDITION, collecting all 85 seminal essays written in defense of the newly drafted Constitution and published under the pseudonym "Publius" in various New York newspapers, together constituting "the most thorough and brilliant explication of the Federal Constitution (or any other constitution) ever written" (Page Smith, The Constitution: A Documentary and Narrative History, pp.263-264). Provenance: William Cock (or Cocke), 1747-1828 (pale signature on each title-page) an early ink inscription on a preliminary blank quotes an article in the The Portfolio, regarding Hamilton's attribution of the various papers Charles Walker Andrews (bookplate in each volume). ![]() ![]() Modern brown half morocco, spines with six compartments, gilt-titled in one, all edges gilt, by Stikeman. New York: John and Andrew M'Lean, 1788.Ģ vols, 12 o (160 x 95mm). The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. ![]()
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