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- GLC#
- GLC01450.631-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1785-1787
- Author/Creator
- Rodney, Thomas, 1744-1811
- Title
- [Defense of the Society of Cincinnati's policy of hereditary membership]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 7 p. : folio Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Rodney decries alarmists who condemn the Society of Cincinnati for creating an American aristocracy: "Such an Aristocracy as this founded on Meritorious Service to their country, I wish to see our Community ever blest with."
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