Empire and nation brings together for the first time two documents which were the wellsprings of nearly all ensuing debate on the limits of governmental power in the United States. -- back cover

Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the British colonies /John Dickinson -- Observations leading to a fair examination of the system of government proposed by the late convention; and to several essential and necessary alterations in it, in a number of letters from the federal farmer to the republican / Richard Henry Lee.