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ALEXANDER HAMILTON

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Report on the Subject of Manufactures

"ONE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN STATE PAPERS, 'THE MAGNA CARTA OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA'"

HAMILTON, Alexander. Report on the Subject of Manufactures. Dublin, 1792.

The rare second edition of Hamilton's famous report urging Congress to promote manufacturing, "one of the great American state papers, 'the Magna Carta of industrial America'" (Howes). This was Hamilton's most innovative report, "a remarkably modern economic vision based on investment, industry, and expanded commerce." $37,000.

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Carriage Act. Act Laying Duties Upon Carriages for the Conveyance of Persons

EXCEPTIONAL ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE 1794 CARRIAGE ACT, RARE FIRST PRINTING OF THE FIRST AMERICAN LAW WHOSE CONSTITUTIONALITY WAS CHALLENGED AND THE FIRST TO TEST THE CONCEPT OF “JUDICIAL REVIEW”

(UNITED STATES CONGRESS). Carriage Act. Act Laying Duties Upon Carriages for the Conveyance of Persons. [Philadelphia, 1794].

First edition of Hamilton’s 1794 Carriage Act, the very first law to involve “judicial review,” defended by Alexander Hamilton in his only appearance before the Court in a momentous decision that “represented the first time the Supreme Court ever ruled on the constitutionality of an act of Congress,” a rare association copy from the library of early U.S. Senator Stephen Row Bradley, the drafter of the 12th amendment. $28,500.

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