A memorial in behalf of the architect of our federal constitution, Pelatiah Webster of Philadelphia, Penn. ... /

Includes text of Webster's "A dissertation on the political union and constitution of the thirteen United States of North America," p. [20]-45.Published later as Senate Doc. no. 461, 60th Cong., 1st sess., 1908; also Senate Doc. no. 481, 69th Cong., 1st sess., 1963."Herein is reprinted, for the first time in 116 years, the ... paper published by Pelatiah Webster at Philadelphia, February 16th, 1783, and there republished with notes in 1791, in which he announced ... the entire plan of the existing constitution of the United States ... more than four years before the Federal Convention of 1787 met."--Cover.Cover title. At head: "To the Congress of the United States."Mode of access: Internet