McKean, Thomas 1734-1817

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Works:	227 works in 405 publications in 4 languages and 5,724 library holdings
Roles:	Editor
Classifications:	z1215, 330

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Publications about Thomas McKean

Publications by Thomas McKean

Publications by Thomas McKean, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Thomas McKean

Thomas McKean, forgotten leader of the Revolution by John M Coleman ( Book )
The democratic judge; or, The equal liberty of the press by William Cobbett ( Book )
Thomas McKean : the shaping of an American republicanism by G. S Rowe ( Book )
The Democratic judge: or The equal liberty of the press, as exhibited, explained, and exposed, in the prosecution of William Cobbett, for a pretended libel against the King of Spain and his embassador, before Thomas M'Kean, chief justice of the state of Pennsylvania by William Cobbett ( Book )
The republican judge, or, The American liberty of the press as exhibited, explained and exposed in the base and partial prosecution of William Cobbett for a pretended libel against the king of Spain and his embassador before the supreme court of Pennsylvania with an address to the people of England by William Cobbett ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Thomas McKean

A calm appeal to the people of the state of Delaware by Thomas McKean ( Book )
14 editions published between 1793 and 2005 in English and held by 154 libraries worldwide

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States of America with that Constitution prefixed : in which are unfolded the principles of free government and the superior advantages of republicanism demonstrated by James Wilson ( Book )
7 editions published between 1792 and 1979 in English and held by 131 libraries worldwide

Objections of the governor to the bill, no. 107, entitled, An Act to Alter the Mode of Appointing the Comptroller and Register General by Pennsylvania ( Book )
5 editions published in 1805 in English and held by 102 libraries worldwide

A proclamation by Pennsylvania ( Book )
3 editions published in 1801 in English and held by 86 libraries worldwide

The acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania carefully compared with the originals. : And an appendix containing the laws now in force, passed between the 30th day of September 1775, and the Revolution. : Together with the Declaration of Independence ; the Constitution of the state of Pennsylvania ; and the Articles of Confederation of the United States of America. : Published by order of the General Assembly by Pennsylvania ( Book )
7 editions published between 1781 and 1782 in English and held by 79 libraries worldwide

An oration, in commemoration of the independence of the United States of North-America, delivered July 4, 1787, at the Reformed Calvinist Church in Philadelphia by James Campbell ( Book )
4 editions published in 1787 in English and held by 70 libraries worldwide

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States of American, with that Constitution prefixed, in which are unfolded, the principles of free government, and the superior advantates of republicanism demonstrated by James Wilson ( Book )
in English and held by 69 libraries worldwide

Opinion of Chief Justice M'Kean. "The chief justice of Pennsylvania is requested to answer the following queries, at the particular desire of the judges of the election for the township of the Northern Liberties, the district of Southwark and the townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk by Thomas McKean ( Book )
3 editions published in 1798 in English and held by 67 libraries worldwide

Fellow citizens. the 2d section of the 1st article of the Constitution of the United States ... having secured to the several states, (as states) the sovereign power of prescribing to its own electors of the most numerous branch of their respective legislatures, such qualifications as they, respectively, should think right and expedient by Another citizen ( Book )
3 editions published in 1798 in English and held by 67 libraries worldwide

Governor's message. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by Pennsylvania ( Book )
4 editions published in 1800 in English and held by 66 libraries worldwide

To the people of Pennsylvania. My fellow-citizens, I take this public method of addressing you on a subject which has been much talked of in this state by Devereux Smith ( Book )
3 editions published in 1784 in English and held by 66 libraries worldwide

Extract from the minutes of the proceedings of a general meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia, held in the State House yard, on Monday the 30th of July, 1792. "It was moved and seconded, that a committee of correspondence, consisting of seven, be appointed to collect information of the sense of the people in different parts of the state, respecting the characters proper to be nominated as members of Congress ( Book )
3 editions published in 1792 in English and held by 66 libraries worldwide

Circular. Philadelphia, August 3d, 1792. Sir, By the enclosed copy of the minutes of the proceedings of a general meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia, you will perceive, that the citizens are desirous to obtain information "of the sense of the people in the different parts of the state, respecting the characters proper to be nominated as representatives in Congress, and electors of a president and vice-president of the United States ; " and that they have committed us to the task of endeavoring to collect the materials ( Book )
3 editions published in 1792 in English and held by 66 libraries worldwide

Precedents in the office of a justice of peace. To which is added a short system of conveyancing, in a method entirely new. : With an appendix, containing a variety of the most useful forms by Collinson Read ( Book )
3 editions published in 1794 in English and held by 64 libraries worldwide

The inagural [sic] address of Thomas M'Kean, governor of Pennsylvania, to both houses of the legislature with their answers, and his replies. : To which are added, remarks by Pennsylvania ( Book )
3 editions published in 1800 in English and held by 64 libraries worldwide

The acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : carefully compared with the originals : and an appendix containing the laws now in force, passed between the 30th day of September 1775, and the Revolution : together with the Declaration of Independence, the constitution of the state of Pennsylvania, and the Articles of Confederation of the United States of America by Pennsylvania ( Book )
2 editions published between 1781 and 1782 in English and held by 63 libraries worldwide

A charge delivered to the grand-jury by the Honourable Thomas M'Kean, Esquire, chief justice of Pennsylvania, at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, and General Goal Delivery, held at York, for the county of York, on the 21st day of April, 1778 ; and published at the special request of the said grand-jury by Pennsylvania ( Book )
6 editions published in 1778 in English and held by 55 libraries worldwide

Legionary orders. December 28th, 2799 [i.e. 1799] Yesterday the commandant was honored by a communication from the governor, which indicating at once both sensibility and high consideration for the corps, ought, he conceives, to be given in the terms in which it is expressed by Pennsylvania ( Book )
6 editions published in 1799 in English and held by 53 libraries worldwide

The reconciliation ; or The triumph of nature a comic opera, in two acts by Peter Markoe ( Book )
2 editions published in 1790 in English and held by 46 libraries worldwide

Reports of cases ruled and adjudged in the courts of Pennsylvania, before and since the Revolution by A.J. Dallas, Esquire. [Three lines from Grotius by Alexander James Dallas ( Book )
in English and held by 46 libraries worldwide

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controlled identity Pennsylvania. Governor (1799-1808 : McKean)

MacKean, Thomas 1734-1817 RAK alt

McKean, Tho. (Thomas), 1734-1817

M'Kean, Thomas, 1734-1817

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