An / Examination / of the / Constitution / for the / United States / of
/ America, / Submitted to the People / by the / General Convention, /
At Philadelphia, the 17th Day of September, 1787, / and since adopted
and ratified / by the / Conventions of Eleven States, / chosen for the
purpose of considering it, being all / that have yet decided on the
subject. / By an American Citizen. / To which is added, / A Speech /
of the / Honorable James Wilson, Esquire, / on the same subject. /
Philadelphia: / Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr. in Fourth-/ Street,
between Market and Arch-Street. / M.DCC.LXXXVIII.
8vo., pp. 33.
“An American Citizen” was the pseudonym of Tench Coxe, of
Pennsylvania, a member of the Annapolis Convention and the
Continental Congress, and author of a number of pamphlets on the
finances and commerce of the United States. The four letters written
over that signature were among the first to appear in favor of the
Constitution, and were reprinted in many of the newspapers of the day.
I have seen three copies with “Tench Coxe, Esq.,” interlined on the
title page in his own handwriting below “By an American Citizen.”