Remarks / on the / Proposed Plan / of a / Federal Government, /
Addressed to the Citizens of the / United States of America, / And
Particularly to the People of Maryland, / By Aristides. / “As a
confederated government is composed of petty re-/ “publics, it enjoys
the internal happiness of each; and with / “regard to its external
situation, by means of the associa-/ “tion, it possesses all the
advantages of extensive monarchies.” / Mont. Sp. of Laws, B. 9, Ch. 1.
/ Annapolis; / Printed by Frederick Green, Printer to the State.
8vo., pp. 42.
Written by Alexander Contee Hanson, a member of the Maryland State
Convention, and Chancellor of Maryland from 1789 till his death in
1806. Both Drake and Lanman have confused Hanson and his son in their
sketches of him, and the best account is given in Hanson’s _Old Kent_.
“These remarks are not all original, but they are very judicious,
calculated to remove objections to the proposed plan of government.”
[Noah Webster.] in _American Magazine_.