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Complete issue of The Providence Gazette and Country Journal from January 12, 1788, 10.25 x 18, four pages, featuring a front-page article headed “The Address and Reasons of Dissent by the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania.” It contains a letter, dated December 18, 1787, which was issued by the minority of the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, where 23 of 69 delegates opposed the adoption of the Constitution. In this installment, the dissenters outline their procedural objections—charging that the convention was convened hastily and that the Philadelphia framers had exceeded their mandate by proposing an entirely new frame of government. Subsequent issues of the Providence Gazette carried the continuation, where the dissenters raised substantive criticisms of the Constitution itself, including the absence of a bill of rights. As the first official minority report to emerge from a state convention, the Pennsylvania Dissent became a touchstone for Anti-Federalist opposition nationwide. In very good to fine condition, with some paper loss to the edges, spine, and intersecting folds.
