[699]. Life and Letters, Vol. I, pp. 314 ff.
[700]. Harding, The Federal Constitution in Massachusetts, pp. 123–124.
[701]. Ford, Essays on the Constitution, p. 139.
[702]. Ford, Essays on the Constitution, pp. 144 ff.
[703]. Libby, op. cit., p. 58.
[704]. Connecticut Courant, May 21, 1787.
[705]. See above, p. 156.
[706]. Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. IV, p. 288. On the antagonism in New York see some clues afforded in an article in The Magazine of American History, April, 1893, pp. 326 ff.
[707]. Dickinson’s Fabius letters were printed after the ratification by Delaware and were directed to the “general public” rather than fellow-citizens in that commonwealth. Among the opponents to the Constitution, he put “men without principles or fortunes who think they may have a chance to mend their circumstances with impunity under a weak government.” Ford, Pamphlets on the Constitution, p. 165.
[708]. See Harding, “Party struggles over the First Pennsylvania Constitution,” American Historical Association Report (1894).