Observations Leading to a Fair Examination of the System of Government
by [LEE, Richard Harry]
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[LEE, Richard Harry]. Observations Leading to a Fair Examination of the System of Government, Proposed by the Late Convention; and to Several Essential and Necessary Alterations in It. In a Number of Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican. [Brooklyn, NY]: Paul Leicester Ford, [1888]. Originally published in 1777, this is the 1st separate ed. 47 pp. Orig. plain wrappers. Lightly chipped, else very good. " A leading attack on the proposed Constitution. Lee feared the proposed government would degenerate into a bureaucracy, eventually into an aristocracy; he favored the individual states occupying the status of practically independent republics, loosely joined for such conveniences as foreign affairs, defense and coinage." HOWES L-216. BAL6163.
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- Observations Leading to a Fair Examination of the System of Government
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- CONSTITUTIONS, FEDERALISM, BALIT, HOWESX, PAMPHLETS, GEN AM
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