(October 10, 1787) LETTER III. OCTOBER 10th, 1787. DEAR SIR, The great object of a free people must be so to form their government and...

(October 9, 1787) LETTER II. OCTOBER 9, 1787. DEAR SIR, The essential parts of a free and good government are afull and equal...

AFRICAN SLAVERY IN AMERICA. Messrs. BRADFORD, Please to insert the following, and oblige yours A. B. TO AMERICANS. That some desperate...

LETTER I. OCTOBER 8th, 1787. DEAR SIR, My letters to you last winter, on the subject of a well balanced national government for the...

29 November 1787 Sir, In my former observations on your speech, to your fellow-citizens, explanatory and defensive of the new...

(December 6, 1787) Sir, When I stated the monied difficulties, which the new government will have to encounter, my chief object was to...

(November 22, 1787) Sir, The public appear to me, sir, to be much indebted to you, for informing them; for what purpose a power was given...

(November 15, 1787) Sir, Your speech has varnished an iron trap, bated with some illustrious names, to catch the liberties of the people....

(November 8, 1787) Sir, I have proved, sir, that not only some power is given in the constitution to restrain, and even to subject the...

(November 1, 1787) MR. GREENLEAF, A speech made to the citizens of Philadelphia, and said to be by Mr. WILSON, appears to me to abound...

George Mason’s Objections to the Constitution of Government formed by the Philadelphia Convention 1. There is no Declaration of Rights,...

Tuesday September 17, 1787 IN CONVENTION The engrossed Constitution being read, Docr. FRANKLIN rose with a speech in his hand, which he...

Tuesday September 15, 1787 IN CONVENTION Mr. CARROL reminded the House that no address to the people had yet been prepared. He considered...

Tuesday September 14, 1787 IN CONVENTION The Report of the Committee of Stile & arrangement being resumed, Mr. WILLIAMSON moved to...

Tuesday September 13, 1787 IN CONVENTION Col: MASON. He had moved without success for a power to make sumptuary regulations. He had not...

Tuesday September 12, 1787 IN CONVENTION Docr. JOHNSON from the Committee of stile &c. reported a digest of the plan, of which printed...

Tuesday September 11, 1787 IN CONVENTION The Report of the Committee of Stile & arrangement not being made & being waited for, The House...

Tuesday September 10, 1787 IN CONVENTION Mr. GERRY moved to reconsider Art XIX. viz. "On the application of the Legislatures of two...

Tuesday September 8, 1787 IN CONVENTION The last Report of Committee of Eleven (see Sepr. 4) was resumed. Mr. KING moved to strike out...

Tuesday September 7, 1787 IN CONVENTION The mode of constituting the Executive being resumed, Mr. RANDOLPH moved, to insert in the first...