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“LIBERTY AND THE LAWS DEPEND ENTIRELY ON A SEPARATION OF [POWERS]”

ADAMS, John. Defence of the Constitutions of Government. London, 1787.

First edition of Adams' important work on a constitutional separation of powers, his reasoned yet impassioned "rendition of the case for checks and balances in government" (McCullough). $14,000.

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"ONE OF THE MORE IMPORTANT OF AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS"

(CONSTITUTION) (BLOUNT, William). Report of the Committee… Articles of Impeachment. Philadelphia, 1797.

First edition of the authoritative Report detailing the House of Representatives' assertion of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" in its groundbreaking impeachment of Senator Blount—"setting precedent… concerning the nature of impeachment, conviction and expulsion"—inaugurating "how the Founders generation… believed the removal of public officials should proceed." $7800.

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"THE OLDEST FUNCTIONING WRITTEN CONSTITUTION IN THE WORLD"

(MASSACHUSETTS) (CONSTITUTION) ADAMS, John. Constitution of the State of Massachusetts. Brookfield, 1805.

First Brookfield edition of the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution, preceded by the same year's first Boston edition—"one of the great enduring documents of the American Revolution"—published together in one volume with the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and Washington's 1796 Farewell Address, this Brookfield edition issued same year as the Boston first edition, stating: "Printed by Order of the General Court of the Common-Wealth of Massachusetts," in original boards. $950.

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