Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States of America, with that constitution prefixed, in which are unfolded, the principles of free government, and the superior advantages of republicanism demonstrated. By James Wilson, L.L.D. Professor of Laws in the College and University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, one of the Associate Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, and appointed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania to form a Digest of the Laws of that State; and by Thomas M'kean, L. L. D. Chief Justice of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The whole extracted from debates, published in Philadelphia by T. Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Pennsylvania. Convention (1787)

Contributor:

McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817.

Wilson, James, 1742-1798.

Standardized Title:

Debates of the Convention, of the State of Pennsylvania, on the Constitution, proposed for the government of the United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (19,[1],20-23,25-147,[3]p. )

Other Title:

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States of America,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly; J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard; and J. S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet Street, 1792.

Notes:

In fact a reissue of the sheets of: 'Debates of the Convention, of the State of Pennsylvania, on the constitution, proposed for the government of the United States', Philadelphia, 1788, with cancel preliminaries and pp. [21]-24 cancelled and replaced by new text, numbered 20-23, and with the index removed; drop-head title p. 20: 'Commentaries on the constitution of the United States of America'.

With the text of the constitution.

With a half-title and a final errata leaf.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Sabin, 104627

English Short Title Catalog, T138356.

OCLC:

642408751