Part of: Works of Fisher Ames Works of Fisher Ames: Volume I
- Fisher Ames (author)
- William Barclay Allen (editor)
Works of Fisher Ames is an edited and expanded collection of the writings, speeches, and correspondence of Fisher Ames (1758–1808), one of the most prominent Federalist statesmen of the early American republic. Edited by W. B. Allen and originally compiled by Seth Ames in the nineteenth century, this volume brings together Ames’s essays, political commentary, and extensive public and private letters.
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This volume highlights Ames’s significance as a leading congressional orator during the First Federal Congress, an articulate defender of the Constitution, and an early voice shaping American political thought. The contents include essays on democracy, education, equality, party politics, republican government, and the French Revolution, as well as major speeches delivered in the Massachusetts ratifying convention and the U.S. Congress. A large portion of the volume consists of letters written between 1788 and 1807, offering insight into the political struggles of the Washington and Adams administrations, foreign policy debates, and Ames’s reflections on the character of the new nation.