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Introduction
In this short letter to Newport attorney Dutee Pearce (a prominent leader in the effort to establish a written constitution), Thomas Dorr, a former state assemblyman and prominent attorney, discusses the growing support for the recently drafted People’s Constitution. Dorr writes just before a three day plebiscite calling for the ratification of the People’s Constitution was set to take place. He notes his close friend, Walter S. Burges of Providence, will underwrite the cost of sending a person to New Shoreham(Block Island) with election tickets. Dorr stresses the need to secure support for the People’s Constitution even in far off Block Island. The People’s Constitution was approved a few days later in an extra-legal plebiscite by a vote of 13,947 for and 52 opposed.