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180442887(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1804). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1804 - Part II. Pp. 313-345. Clean and fine.
1852189209München, Literarisch-artistische Anstalt, 1852. VI, 717 S. Moderner schwarzer Leder mit Rückenschild. [2 Warenabbildungen]
1852456600München, Verlag der literatisch-artistischen Anstalt, 1852. VI S., 1 Bl., 717 S. Halbleder d. Zeit (beschabt u. bestoßen, Gelenke gebrochen). [2 Warenabbildungen]
18341215671834. First Edition. DORR Thomas Wilson. An Address to the People of Rhode-Island From the Convention Assembled at Providence on the 22nd Day of February and Again on the 12th Day of March 1834 to Promote the Establishment of a State Constitution. Providence: Cranston & Hammond 1834. Octavo period-style half diced calf gilt marbled boards pp. i-v 6-60. $2400.First edition of Dorr's foundational Address prompting his role as instigator and leader of the Dorr Rebellion placing him ""in the front rank of the political reformers of Jacksonian America.Born into privilege Rhode Island's Thomas Dorr became ""a political insurrectionary who hastened the demise of the royal charter of 1663 and the adoption of a written constitution"" Wiecek Peculiar Conservatism 242. Following the American Revolution by the 1820s Rhode Island remained the only state that clung to its colonial charter which ""restricted suffrage to white men who possessed real estate valued at a minimum of $134"" Chaput Proslavery and Antislavey Politics 662-63. It had ""evolved from the most to the least democratic state"" Lemons Rhode Island's Ten Turning Points 62. ""Dorr's political goals'free suffrage' with no discrimination against the foreign-born 'one-man one-vote' an independent judiciary a more powerful and dynamic executive the secret ballotthough not permanently achieved in Rhode Island during his lifetime placed him in the front rank of the political reformers of Jacksonian America"" ANB.In 1834 Dorr ""asked the General Assembly to call a convention to revise the state constitution in favor of taxpayer-militia suffrage and to adopt 'equal representation'"" Wiecek 242. In this major Address delivered at that convention and ""composed primarily by Dorr"" Conley Democracy in Decline 255 he states: ""No form of a Constitution can be worth much if in this State the Legislative power is in the hands of less than one third part of the qualified voters. A few political managers rule the whole State as they please against the will of two thirds of the freeman and three fourths of the people"" emphasis in original."" To Dorr the state's ""strange adherence to the charter"" left Rhode Island with an ""inequality of representation too unjust to be much longer tolerated."" In 1841 after Dorr was elected ""the People's governor"" under the state's ""People's Constitution"" he became the leader of the 1842 Dorr rebellion which historian Sean Wilentz calls ""'a striking and exceptional case in the history of American democratization before the Civil War' calling it no less than 'a deadly serious test of democracy's meaning and democracy's future.'"" The Dorr Rebellion increasingly viewed as the ""most significant political and constitutional event between the Age of Jackson and the election of Lincoln Dorr's constitutional understanding had roots not only in the Revolution and the post-Revolutionary era; it remained a vibrant part of American constitutionalism"" Chaput Rhode Island Question 55-56. Sabin 70537. American Imprints 26527. Text generally fresh with light scattered foxing. hardcover
1899173758Berlin, Reimer, 1899. VIII, 167 S. Originalbroschur.
1892635331Zürich, Füßli, 1892. VIII, 475 S. Halbleder d. Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung (Rücken teilw. leicht verblaßt).
18410187411841 Johannes Muller Hardcover
18853466458London, Butterworths, 1885/87. XXVIII, 507, 31; XVII, 966 pp. Original cloth (stamp on title page, library label on spine, vorderes Gelenk von vol. 1 aufgeplatzt).
18853462135Glasgow, Blackie, 1885. 408 S. OLwd (Stempel auf Vorsatz, Titel und Titelrückseite, Bibliotheks-Rückenschild).
18843462465Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1884. XII, 320 S. OLwd (Stempel auf Titel, Bibliotheks-Rückenschild).
