Excerpt: ...and January 28 and May 3, 1787. I am anxious to hear what you have done in your federal convention. I am in hopes at least you will persuade the States to commit their commercial arrangements to Congress, and to enable them to pay their debts, interest and capital. The coercive powers supposed to be wanting in the federal head, I am of opinion they possess by the law of nature, which authorizes one party to an agreement to compel the other to performance. A delinquent State makes itself a party against the rest ...
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Excerpt: ...and January 28 and May 3, 1787. I am anxious to hear what you have done in your federal convention. I am in hopes at least you will persuade the States to commit their commercial arrangements to Congress, and to enable them to pay their debts, interest and capital. The coercive powers supposed to be wanting in the federal head, I am of opinion they possess by the law of nature, which authorizes one party to an agreement to compel the other to performance. A delinquent State makes itself a party against the rest of the confederacy. We have at present two fires kindled in Europe; 1, in Brabant. The Emperor, the moment of his return to Vienna, disavowed the concessions which had been made by his governors to quiet the Brabantines. They prepared, therefore, for regular resistance. But as the Emperor had, at the same time, called for deputies to be sent to Vienna to consult on their affairs, they have sent them, but without power to conclude anything, and in the meantime they go on arming. The enterprising, unpersevering, capricious, Thrasonic character of their Sovereign renders it probable he will avail himself of this little condescendence in the Brabantines to recede from all his innovations. 2. The Dutch are every now and then cutting one another's throats. The party of the Stadtholder is strongest within the confederacy, and is gaining ground. He has a majority in the States General, and a strong party in the States of Holland. His want of money is supplied by his cousin George. England and Prussia abet his usurpations, and France the patriotic party. Were England and France in a condition to go to war, there is no question but they would have been at it before now. But their insuperable poverty renders it probable they will compel a suspension of hostilities, and either arrange and force a settlement on the Dutch, or if they cannot agree themselves on this, they will try to protract things by negotiation. Can I be useful to you here in anything...
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Illus. by Lynd Ward. Fine copy in slipcase. Small 4to, 362 pp., Sandglass newsletter laid-in. Selected and edited by Saul K. Padover., Selections from the Personal, Political, Philosophical Writings of Thomas Jefferson.
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VeryGood. Hardcover, in slipcase; The Heritage Press; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; marbled boards with light blue spine; in very good condition w ith clean text, firm binding. Slipcase covered with marbled paper and shows fading, shelf wear, and small tear at top edge.
Publisher:
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association
Published:
1907
Language:
English
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9831919706
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Good. No Jacket. Half red leather over marbled boards. Boards worn, missing a 1/2" x one inch piece at top of spine. Mild tanning and soiling to flyleaves and endpapers. Otherwise a clean and sound copy.
