RHODE ISLAND

ify Constitution and petition US Congress
for protection, 871; satirical submitted to
US Congress, 430-31
-to call a convention: from Bristol, xxxviii; to
General Assembly, 151, 153-54, 193-98,
219-20, 220, 230, 231, 232n; from Newport,
454; from Providence, xxxviii, 454, 499, 500,
501n, 503-5, 537, 538, 539
PETTES, JOSEPH (Charlestown), 155*
PETTYES, WILLIAM (Hopkinton), 172*
PHETTEPLACE, ELIAKAM (Glocester), 169*
PHETTEPLACE, EZEKIEL (Glocester), 169*
PHETTEPLACE, EZEKIEL, JR. (Glocester), 169*
PHETTEPLACE, JOHN (Glocester), 167*
PHETTEPLACE, SAMUEL (Glocester), 167*
PHETTEPLACE, SAMUEL, JR. (Glocester), 169*
PHILADELPHIA, PA.: merchants and brewers of
plan boycott of RI goods, 537; as potential
capital for federal government, 389, 401-2,
553, 553n, 891, 1045. See also Pennsylvania
"PHILANTHROPOS": text of, 660-62, 1051-53
"PHILELAETHEROS": text of, 62-63n
PHILLIPS, AARON (Glocester), 169*
PHILLIPS, ADAM (Glocester), 168*
PHILLIPS, ANDREW (Glocester), 169*
PHILLIPS, DAVID (Scituate), 203*
PHILLIPS, ISRAEL (Scituate), 203*
PHILLIPS, JAMES (Coventry), 157*
PHILLIPS, JAMES, JR. (Coventry), 157*
PHILLIPS,JOHN (Hopkinton), 172*
PHILLIPS,JOHN (Scituate), 203*
PHILLIPS,JOSEPH (Glocester), 169*
PHILLIPS, REUBEN (Smithfield), 205*
PHILLIPS, RICHARD (North Kingstown), 188*
PHILLIPS, RICHARD (son of William) (North
Kingstown), 188*
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (Coventry), 157*
"PHOCION" (Theodore Foster): authorship of,
381; response to, 359-61; text of, 354-59
PHYSICIANS, 1066
PICKERING, TIMOTHY (Pa., Mass.): id., 142n
-letters to, 142, 453
PIERCE. See Pearce; Peirce
PIERCE,JOHN (East Greenwich), 163*
PIERCE, WILLIAM (East Greenwich), 163*
PIKE, JONATHAN (North Providence), 189*
PIKE, PETER (North Providence), 190*
PILSBURY, TOBIAS (Exeter), 166*
PINCKNEY, CHARLES (S.C.), 5
PITCHER, JOHN (North Providence), 190*
PLACE, SIMEON (Glocester), 168*
PLAICE, THOMAS (East Greenwich), 164*
"PLAIN TRUTH": text of, 64-65
PLATT, RICHARD (N.Y), 398, 399n, 402, 402n

"PLUTARCH," 713n; text of, 860-62
POCOCK, PELIG (New Shoreham), 186*
POETRY, 305-6, 351, 452, 640, 736; The Amer-
ican Union Completed, 1003n, 1031, 1032n;
A Character, 860-61; Charles Churchill, An
Epistle to William Hogarth, 249, 251n; A Coun-
try Dialogue, 86-87; A fair bargain, 1088-
89n; Homer, The Odyssey, 798; Horace, Car-
mina, 882, 885n; A new Song, 372-73;
Alexander Pope, 765, 767n; Alexander Pope,
An Essay on Man, 465n; printed in RI, 712n;
A Real Old Whig, 637-39; Rhode-Island
Conversion, 1048; A Rhode Island Medita-
tion, 820-21; A Soldier, 1077-79; The An-
archiad, 613, 613n; W.W., Gotherniel, &c.
&c., 430-31; A Yankee, 151n. See also Satire
POLITICAL AND LEGAL WRITERS AND WRIT-
INGS: John Adams, Defence of the Constitu-
tions, 118n, 793n, 819-20, 820n;Joseph Ad-
dison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, 117,
118n; John Arbuthnot, Of the Laws of Chance,
884, 885n; Sir Francis Bacon, 410, 410n; Sir
William Blackstone, 104, 143-45; Rev. Ben-
jamin Colman, Government the Pillar of the
Earth, 881, 881n; Anthony Ashley Cooper
(Earl of Shaftesbury), Sensus Communis, 392,
393n; Benjamin Franklin, 793; Grotius, 132;
Christiaan Huygen, De Ratiociniis in Ludo
Aleae, 885n; "Machieval like" (Machiavelli),
758; Sir Thomas More, Utopia, 816, 818n;
Newtonian philosophy, 479; Charles Pinck-
ney, Observations on the Plan of Government, 5;
Richard Price, 793; Baron Samuel von Puf-
fendorf, 132; Josiah Quincy, Jr., Observations
on the Act of Parliament Commonly Called the
Boston Port-Bill, 81, 81n;J.J. Rousseau, 115-
16, 118n; Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of
Chesterfield, 861, 862n; James Steuart, An
Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy,
561, 562n; Turgot, Baron de Laune, 793. See
also Classical antiquity; Literary references
POLITICAL CONDITIONS UNDER THE CONFED-
ERATION: abuse of power in RI government,
257; clashes between states make governing
difficult, 291; Congress is ineffective, 738,
750; decline after Revolution, 291; desper-
ate, 60, 83, 108, 222, 263, 402, 660, 685, 783,
811; lacks an executive, 750; RI called de-
plorable, 767, 794, 880, 883; RI fiscal poli-
cies alienate, xxxv; states must follow Con-
federation Congress, 20; states will be
disgraced if they do not ratify Constitution,
39; war only means of enforcing Confeder-
ation legislation, 750; will improve under

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