TY - ABST T1 - The Constitution of a Perfect Commonwealth. Being the French Constitution of 1793. Amended, and rendered entirely conformable to the Whole Rights of Man Y1 - 1798 A1 - T[homas] Spence (1750-1814) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Another version of Spence’s cooperative commonwealth. See also 1782, 1795, and 1801 Spence.

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Later ed. as The Constitution of Spensonia A Country in Fairyland Situated Between Utopia and Oceana Brought from Thence by Captain Swallow (i.e. Thomas Spence). London: Author, 1801. This ed. rpt. in Trial of Thomas Spence in 1801 Together With His Description of Spensonia, Constitution of Spensonia, End of Oppression, Recantation of the End of Oppression, Newcastle on Tyne Lecture Delivered in 1775. Also a Brief Life of Spence and a Description of His Political Token Dies by Arthur W. Waters (Leamington Spa, Eng.: Privately Ptd., 1917), 93-109. Versions are also available in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Avero (Eighteenth Century) Publications, 1982), 54-69, 104-118; Pig’s Meat: Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Glossop (Nottingham, England: Spokesman, 1982), 166-185; and in Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary. Ed. Alastair Bonnett and Keith Alexander (London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2014), 145-161. An extract was published anonymously as The receipt to make a millennium or happy world. 4th ed. Single sheet. Np, [1805?] This was also published as Something to a Purpose. A receipt to make a millennium or Happy World. Extracts from The Constitution of Spensonia. London: Ptd. for T. Spence, [1803].

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