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To Secure The Blessings Of Liberty: Selected Writings of Gouverneur Morris
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Gouverneur Morris | Liberty Fund
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Gouverneur Morris | Liberty Fund
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Liberty Fund is pleased to present this single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris’s writings. This edition will be a welcome addition to scholars of American and French history as the volume contains many writings that have never before been published.
Morris served as Deputy Superintendent of Finance during the American Revolution, in which capacity he devised the system of decimal coinage. He was a prominent member of the Constitutional Convention, where he spoke more frequently than any other member and, as a member of the Committee on Style and Arrangement, put the Constitution in its present form and authored its Preamble. As a private citizen in Paris, and later Minister to France (1789–94), Morris was a firsthand witness of the French Revolution. On his return to the U.S., he served as a U.S. Senator, was a prime mover in the creation of the Erie Canal, and took a leading role as a critic of the Jefferson and Madison administrations. Providing his unique perspective, this is a wonderful and accessible single source that illuminates the political and economic thought of Gouverneur Morris.
702 pages.
Introduction
Acknoweldegements
A Note on the Text
Selected Bibliography
To the Inhabitants of the Colony of New-York
Political Enquiries
Oration on the Necessity for Declaring Independence from Britain
Public Letters to the Carlisle Commissioners
Proposal to Congress Concerning the Management of the Government
Report of the Committee on the Treasury
Some Thoughts on the Finances of America
To the Quakers, Bethlemites, Moderate Men, Refugees, and Other the Tories Whatsoever, and Wheresoever, Dispersed
To Governor Johnstone
“An American” Letters on Public Finance for the Pennsylvania Packet
Righteousness Establisheth a Nation
Observations on Finances: Foreign Trade and Loans
Ideas of an American on the Commerce Between the United States and French Islands As It May Respect Both France and America
Address to the Assembly of Pennsylvania on the Abolition of the Bank of North America
The Constitution of the United States
American Finances
Observations on Government, Applicable to the Political State of France
Memoir Written for the King of France, Respecting the New Constitution
Observations on the New Constitution of France
Notes on the Form of a Constitution for France
Remarks upon the Principles and Views of the London Corresponding Society
Oration on the Death of George Washington
Speeches in the Senate on the Repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801
Letters to the New York Evening Post on the Louisiana Purchase
Funeral Oration for Alexander Hamilton
Oration on the Love of Wealth
Oration on Patriotism
On Prejudice
An Answer to War in Disguise
Notes on the United States of America
The British Treaty
On the Beaumarchais Claim
To the People of the United States
Election Address
Letters to the Evening Post on Albert Gallatin’s Plan for Enforcing the Non-Importation Act
Erie Canal Commission Report
An Address to the People of the State of New York on the Present State of Affairs
Discourse Before the New-York Historical Society
Oration Before the Washington Benevolent Society
Essays for the Examiner
Oration on Europe’s Deliverance from Despotism
To the Legislators of New York
An Inaugural Discourse
To the Bank Directors of New-York
Address on “National Greatness”
Index
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