Letter From Mr. Robert Owen. To The President And Members Of The New York State Convention, Appointed To Revise The Constitution Of The State

By Robert Owen

Book Overview

Before the ink dried on New York's founding promises, Robert Owen addressed its lawmakers with a radical question: what should a constitution be for? It still reads urgently today. Letter From Mr. Robert Owen is a political pamphlet and open letter to legislators of the New York State Convention appointed for state constitution revision. Owen, famed for his utopian socialism writings and his role in cooperative movement history, brings a practical reformer's eye to power, rights, education, labour, and the public good. As a constitutional reform tract, it gathers political reform proposals with the moral heat of a social reform philosophy, arguing that institutions can be redesigned as deliberately as factories and communities. For readers drawn to nineteenth century New York and the drama of the New York constitutional convention, it offers a direct, unfiltered encounter with reform language in motion; for collectors, it is a concise artefact from the period when pamphlets helped steer public debate. Presented as a complete text edition and public domain reprint, it invites comparison between early American constitutional argument and Owen's wider vision of cooperative society. Read in an evening, its urgency suits casual browsers of political history as well as classic-literature collectors seeking a landmark voice from the transatlantic reform era and the early public life of American democracy. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354504809
• ISBN13: 9789354504808
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"