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- The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
- The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as…
- It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.
- THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power…
- The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were…
- The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as…
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