Observations on the new constitution, and on the Federal and State conventions, by a Columbian patriot

by Mercy Otis Warren

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Charles Warren, “Elbridge Gerry, James Warren, Mercy Warren and the Ratification of the Federal Constitution in Massachusetts,” M.H.S., Proceedings, 1930-1932, pp. 143-144. The newspaper was the New York Journal, April 2, 1788, et seq.

[2] For a recent good analysis of the Anti-Federalist position see Cecelia M. Kenyon, “Men of Little Faith: The Anti-Federalists on the Nature of Representative Government,” William and Mary Quarterly (January, 1955), pp. 3-43.

[3] See Mrs. Mercy Warren, History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution ..., three volumes (Boston, 1805), III, pp. 364-366.

[4] See Paul L. Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States ... (Brooklyn, N. Y., 1888). He attributes the pamphlet, there reprinted in its entirety, to Gerry. See again Charles Warren, op. cit., pp. 143-144, 157-159, and Mrs. Mercy Warren, History ..., III, pp. 360, ff.