Webster, Peletiah. A Dissertation on the Political Union and Constitution of the Thirteen United States, of North America: Which is Necessary to Their Preservation and Happiness, Humbly Offered to the Public 1783.
Peletiah Webster can be thought of as an early American economist and is considered by some as a contributing architect of the federal constitution of the United States (e.g., Webster 1783); however, the degree of this contribution has been controversial (Corwin 1912).