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Centinel XVII
Philadelphia, March 19th, 1788. TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow-Citizens, In my last number I exposed the villanious intention of...
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Mar 9, 20245 min read
Centinel XVI
Philadelphia, 23d February, 1788. To THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow-Citizens, The new constitution instead of being the panecea or...
Mark Shubert
Mar 9, 20245 min read
Centinel XV
Philadelphia, February 20th, 1788. To THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow-Citizens, There are few of the maxims or opinions we hold, that...
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Mar 9, 20243 min read
Centinel XIV
To THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow-Citizens, I am happy to find the comment that I have made upon the nature and tendency of the new...
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Centinel XIII
(January 30, 1788) To THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow-Citizens, The conspirators are putting your good sense, patriotism and spirit to...
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Centinel XII
(January 23, 1788) TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow-Citizens, Conscious guilt has taken the alarm, thrown out the signal of...
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Mar 9, 20244 min read
Centinel XI
(January 16, 1788) To THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow-Citizens, The arguments upon which the advocates of the new constitution the...
Mark Shubert
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Centinel X
(January 12, 1788) To THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow Citizens. What illustrious evidence and striking demonstration does the present...
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Centinel IX
Philadelphia, January 5, 1788. To THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow Citizens, You have the peculiar felicity of living under the most...
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Centinel VIII
(December 29, 1787) TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. But as it is by comparison only that men estimate the value of any good, they are not...
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Mar 8, 20247 min read
Centinel VII
(December 27, 1787) To The People of Pennsylvania. Friends and Fellow-Citizens! The admiring world lately beheld the sun of liberty risen...
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Centinel VI
(December 25, 1787) To the PEOPLE of PENNSYLVANIA. "Man is the glory, jest, and riddle of the world." POPE Incredible transition! the...
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Centinel V
December 4, 1787 Samuel Bryan To the PEOPLE of PENNSYLVANIA. Friends, Countrymen, and Fellow-Citizens, Mr. Wilson in a speech delivered...
Mark Shubert
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Centinel IV
Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 30 November, 1787 Samuel Bryan To the PEOPLE of PENNSYLVANIA. Friends, Countrymen and fellow...
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Mar 8, 202411 min read
Centinel III
(November 8, 1787) Samuel Bryan To the PEOPLE of PENNSYLVANIA John 3d, verse 20th- For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither...
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Mar 7, 202412 min read
Centinel II
(October 24, 1787) By Samuel Bryan FRIENDS, COUNTRYMEN, and FELLOW-CITIZENS, As long as the liberty of the press continues unviolated,...
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Centinel I
October 5, 1787 By Samuel Bryan To the Freemen of Pennsylvania Friends, Countrymen and Fellow Citizens, Permit one of yourselves to put...
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Mar 7, 202414 min read
The First Pillar: Delaware Ratifies the Constitution
Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Delaware; December 7, 1787. We the Deputies of the People of the Delaware State, in...
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Mar 7, 20241 min read
A Countryman III
A Countryman III (November 29, 1787) Roger Sherman To the PEOPLE of Connecticut. The same thing once more.-I am a plain man, of few...
Mark Shubert
Mar 7, 20242 min read
A Countryman II
November 22, 1787 Roger Sherman To the People of Connecticut. It is fortunate that you have been but little distressed with that torrent...
Mark Shubert
Mar 7, 20244 min read
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