26 Mar. 1788
Original paper slip text:26 March 1788.
London, England
Original paper slip text:London
2 p.
- Note new collection title per NN, "Thomas Addis Emmet Coll." - SEG & GKF 2/28/17
- EM.9602
- Offered for sale, American Antiquarian, vol. 3, #1 (Feb. 1873), p. 193–194.
- "It is expected in Europe that the new Constitution for the United States will soon be adopted by all. It is a general opinion that the old one, stood in great need of a Reform and that the projected Change, will be much for our Prosperity, a Federal Republick of independent Sovereign States was never known to exist, over a large Territory, innumerable Difficulties have been found in those which have been tried in small Countries. The Question really seems to be, whether the Union shall be broken; or whether all shall come under one Sovereignty. The Union is an object of such Magnitude that every Thing but constitutional Liberty should be Sacrificed to it. What is Switzerland? What is Holland, What was Lissa, Achaia or Tuscany, in Extent and Numbers, Wealth and Power to what our States are or will be in a very few years?"
- Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 12/08/2015
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Papers of John Adams, volume 19, page 289
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Original paper slip text:Excerpted in Doc. Hist. Ratification, 16:481
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The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, ed. Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, and others, Madison, Wis., 1976– .
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