Includes text of Webster's "A dissertation on the political union and constitution of the thirteen United States of North America," p. [20]-45. ; Published later as Senate Doc. no. 461, 60th Cong., 1st sess., 1908; also Senate Doc. no. 481, 69th Cong., 1st sess., 1963. ; "Herein is reprinted, for the first time in 116 years, the . paper published by Pelatiah Webster at Philadelphia, February 16th, 1783, and there republished with notes in 1791, in which he announced . the entire plan of the existing constitution of the United States . more than four years before the Federal Convention of 1787 met."--Cover. ; Cover title. At head: "To the Congress of the United States." ; Mode of access: Internet.
52 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo) ; Entered twice by Evans, attributed once to Tench Coxe and once to Pelatiah Webster. Attributed to Coxe in the Dictionary of American biography.