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1787  October 1787  Oct 1787 - Dec 1787: Essays of John DeWitt (Massachusetts) Full Text of Document  Oct 22, 1787: John DeWitt No. 1 (Massachusetts) Full Text of Document  Oct 27, 1787: John DeWitt No. 2 (Massachusetts) Full Text of Document  November 1787  Nov 5, 1787: John DeWitt No. 3 (Massachusetts) Full Text of Document  December 1787  Dec 1787: John DeWitt No. 5 (Massachusetts) The Massachusetts Antifederalist John De Witt informs his readers that the proponents of the Constitution have not engaged in "cool reasoning and dispassionate argument." Instead, they bestow on the critics "the opprobrious terms of insurgents, destroyers of all government, bankrupts, defaulters, and anti federalists, which is worse than jacobitism." Full Text of Document