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Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Delaware. Microform supplement
[3A] ([1978])
Pennsylvania packet, 13 June 1788, p. 352
Page 352
352 5PennsylvaniaPacket, 13 June 178Av The present is a period of momentous concern.--To be a united nation of importance, or petty anarchies, is now the question. The inefficacy of our present government is fully proved by the encroachments of our commerce, the decline of national honour, and the confusion pervading every state. Thus matured in knowledge by painful experience, we are called upon to adopt a system, produced and organized by the deliberations of men, whose virtues and abilities will be an immortal honor to America. Should any state reject this salutary system, unbiassed posterity will consign its name to eternal infamy. 1, The Packet probably reprinted this item from the no longer extant Delaware Gazette of 14 May,
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