![[BROADSIDE - PENNSYLVANA]. An Alarm. To the freemen and electors of Pennsylvania. Friends and countrymen, The day is now approaching on which you are to determine whether Pennsylvania shall enjoy a free and just government, or be ruled by the arbitrary wills of a few men who have lately composed the majority of the Council of Censors..." [Philadelphia:] s.n. 1784.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/NYR/2012_NYR_02572_0209_000(broadside_-_pennsylvana_an_alarm_to_the_freemen_and_electors_of_pennsy124733).jpg?w=1)
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[BROADSIDE - PENNSYLVANA]. An Alarm. To the freemen and electors of Pennsylvania. Friends and countrymen, The day is now approaching on which you are to determine whether Pennsylvania shall enjoy a free and just government, or be ruled by the arbitrary wills of a few men who have lately composed the majority of the Council of Censors..." [Philadelphia:] s.n. 1784.
2o broadside (21 x 16½ in). Printed in 3 columns. (Unrestored: light dampstaining in margins, central vertical tear, edges chipped in several places).
A large-format indictment of an unusual feature of Pennsylvania's 1776 Constitution; it required a 24-member Council of Censors to be chosen every seven years, charged with revisions to the Constitution. The broadside assails the current censors, who have, thus far, "refused to call a convention to alter and amend the Constitution," have shown favoritism and usurped authority. "They are the enemies of liberty and the violators of their own Constitution...." The citizenry is exhorted to resist their authority. RARE. Evans 18321; Hildeburn 4418.
2o broadside (21 x 16½ in). Printed in 3 columns. (Unrestored: light dampstaining in margins, central vertical tear, edges chipped in several places).
A large-format indictment of an unusual feature of Pennsylvania's 1776 Constitution; it required a 24-member Council of Censors to be chosen every seven years, charged with revisions to the Constitution. The broadside assails the current censors, who have, thus far, "refused to call a convention to alter and amend the Constitution," have shown favoritism and usurped authority. "They are the enemies of liberty and the violators of their own Constitution...." The citizenry is exhorted to resist their authority. RARE. Evans 18321; Hildeburn 4418.