Concerns about Constitution

Creating the Declaration of Independence | Creating the United States Constitution | Creating the Bill of Rights

Forging a Federal Government | Demand for a Bill of Rights | Formation of Political Parties | Election of 1800 | Peaceful Transition

[Mercy Otis Warren]. Observations on the New Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions, by a Columbian Patriot. Boston, 1788. Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (69)
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Mercy Otis Warren (1728—1814), America’s most prominent female writer during the Revolutionary War era, strongly objected to the absence of a bill of rights in the federal Constitution of 1787. She was also concerned that the Constitution set no limits on the power of the judiciary and contained no rotations of offices or term limits for federal officials.