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Oil on canvas. H 23, W 19 in • H 58.4, W 48.3 cm. Independence National Historical Park, Portrait Collection (Second Bank of the United States), Philadelphia, PA.
Oil on canvas. H 23, W 19 in • H 58.4, W 48.3 cm. Independence National Historical Park, Portrait Collection (Second Bank of the United States), Philadelphia, PA.
But the peculiar character of [Aaron] Burr’s correspondence goes beyond his preoccupation with haste and secrecy. Burr never developed any ideas about constitutionalism or governmental policy in the way the other Revolutionary statesmen did, because, in truth, he was not much concerned about such matters. If he had any idea about the new federal Constitution of 1787, he left no record of it.