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Various The Columbian Magazine

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02141 Author/Creator: Various Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Magazine Date: 1787 Pagination: 890 p. , 8 p. of plates : ill. ; 20.7 x 13.5 cm. Order a Copy

Twelve issues plus a supplement to the first volume. Each issue has a table of contents. The September issue contains a printing of the constitution proposed at the Constitutional Convention under the heading "The New plan for a Federal Government" on p. 659.

Seddon, T., fl. 1787
Spotswood, W., fl. 1787
Cist, C., fl. 1787
Trenchard, J., fl. 1787

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