John Dalrymple (political writer)
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John Dalrymple Scottish
Scotland
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 writer, wrote numerous political tract
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s, among which Answers for the Right Honourable John Dalrymple, Lord Provost of the city of Edinburgh, and others; to the petition of James Stoddart, Esq; late old Provost
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, and James Stirling, Esq; late one of the bailies of said city, and others
is the most widely preserved.

John Taylor of Caroline
John Taylor of Caroline
John Taylor usually called John Taylor of Caroline was a politician and writer. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the United States Senate . He wrote several books on politics and agriculture...

, in his Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Governments of the United States, noted that he had read a "book [...] written by a Sir John Dalrymple, an Englishman [sic
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], containing a proposition for a reunion between England
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 [sic] and the United States
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, upon terms nearly similar to the constitution of Neuchattel" (p. 113). (Dalrymple was in fact a Scot, and the proposed reunion would have been with the Kingdom of Great Britain
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, not "England".)
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