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To the people of Pennsylvania. Friends and fellow-citizens : The late convention have submitted to your consideration a plan of a new federal government ... it ought to be dispassionately and deliberately examined, and its own intrinsic merit the only criterion of your patronage ...

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Main Author:	Bryan, Samuel, 1759-1821
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 20248.
Subjects:	United States. > Constitution. Federal government > United States. United States > Politics and government > 1783-1789. Broadsides.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

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