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Updated: August 15, 2024
From 1784 to 1786 pamphlets began to appear in which more definite suggestions were made for a new government. Pelatiah Webster proposed a government with enlarged powers, and a legislature of two houses. "If they disagree," said he, "let them sit still until they recover their good humor." The method in which the new government was to enforce its powers was put in a quaint and incisive form.
It may readily be supposed that it was very disagreeable to both husband and wife to have a penniless nephew thrown upon their care and protection. "How could your brother be so thoughtless and inconsiderate as to use up all his money, and leave his son destitute? Didn't he have a handsome income?" "Yes," said Pelatiah. "He got two thousand dollars a year, and maybe more."
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