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Agrippa IV
To the People, Having considered some of the principal advantages of the happy form of government under which it is our peculiar good...

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Agrippa III
To the People. It has been proved, from the clearest evidence, in two former papers, that a free government, I mean one in which the...

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Agrippa II
To the People of Massachusetts. In the Gazette of the 23d instant, I ascertained from the state of other countries and the experience of...

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A Countryman V
To the People of Connecticut. You do not hate to read Newspaper Essays on the new constitution, more than I hate to write them. Then we...

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A Countryman IV
(December 6, 1787) To the People of Connecticut. If the propriety of trusting your government in the hands of your representatives was...

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Agrippa I
To the People, Many inconveniencies and difficulties in the new plan of government have been mentioned by different writers on that...

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Fabius IX
(May 1, 1788) OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION. When the sentiments of some objectors, concerning the...

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Fabius VIII
(April 29, 1788) OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION. The proposed confederation offers to us a system of...

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Fabius VII
(April 26, 1788) OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION Proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION. Thus happily mistaken was the ingenious, learned,...

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Fabius VI
(April 24, 1788) OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION. Some of our fellow-citizens have ventured to...

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Fabius V
(April 22, 1788) OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION. It has been considered, what are the rights to be...

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Fabius IV
(April 19, 1788) OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION. Another question remains. How are the contributed...

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Fabius III
(April 17, 1788) OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION The Writer of this Address hopes, that he will now...

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Fabius II
(April 15, 1788) OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION. But besides the objections originating from the...

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Fabius I
(April 12, 1788) OBSERVATIONS on the CONSTITUTION proposed by the FEDERAL CONVENTION The Constitution proposed by the Federal Convention...

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Philadelphiensis X
(February 20, 1788) My Fellow-Citizens, If stupid irony, falsehood, scurrility, and abusive language, be sufficient to silence a writer...

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Philadelphiensis IV
December 12, 1787 I SAMUEL iii [viii]. 18-And ye shall cry out in that day, because of your king which ye shall have chosen you: and the...

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Philadelphiensis VIII
(January 23, 1788) "This is true liberty; when freeborn men, Having to advise the public, may speak free; Which he who can, and will,...

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Philadelphiensis XII
(April 9, 1788) My Fellow-Citizens, The essays under the signature of Philadelphiensis are represented as without argument, and their...

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Philadelphiensis VII
(January 10, 1788) Common sense said, that, in case America became an independent nation, neutrality would be a safer convoy than a man...

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