ON

SELF-GOVERNMENT:

TOGETHER WITH GENERAL PLANS OF A

STATE CONSTITUTION,

AND A CONSTITUTION FOR A

CONFEDERATION OF STATES,

FOUNDED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-GOVERNMENT;

ALSO,

TWO EXTRACTS, ONE FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, THE OTHER
FROM THAT OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY.

TO WHICH 19 ADDED

THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF

THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

EXAMINED ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-GOVERNMENT,

"For he who values liberty, confines
His zeal for her predominance within
No narrow bounds; her cause engages him
Wherever pleaded."-CowPer.

"We have no strength except upon great principles."-ELIHU BURRITT,

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY CROSBY & NICHOLS, 111 WASHINGTON STREET,
AND OTIS CLAPP, 12 SCHOOL STREET.

1847.