Original paper slip text:[Feb.–March 1776]
- Typescript prepared from printing in Taylor's Inquiry. Early version of Thoughts on Government. See RC at slip 011753
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- Written shortly before 27 March 1776, when Hooper and Penn set off from Phila. to No. Car. convention; see Burnett, ed. Letters of Members, 1:1viii.
- John Penn MSS
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Original paper slip text:Printed: JA, Works, 4:203–209, from John Taylor, Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States, New Haven, 1950, p. 452–458 (originally published at Fredericksburg, 1814).
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The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1850–1856
10 vols.
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