Rhode island Quote by Ron Chernow

“...[at the Constitutional Convention] the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but principally from their having or not…

— James Madison

“Our forefathers bequeathed to us far more than a republic. They willed to us an enduring Constitution that incorporates more thought and brainpower than…

— James D. Best

“Roughly speaking: more than forty held government bonds. More than twenty were moneylenders. Over fifteen were slave owners. The rest an assortment of land…

— Ed Asner

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in…

— George Washington

“The Constitution was a compromise between slaveholding interests of the South and moneyed interests of the North. For the purpose of uniting the thirteen…

— Howard Zinn

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

— Ezra Stiles

“the Southern States rebelled against the usurpation of their rights under the Constitution as sovereign states. It’s critical to remember that, until that time,…

— Joseph Befumo

“During elections for the 1776 convention to frame a constitution for Pennsylvania, a Privates Committee urged voters to oppose “great and overgrown rich men…

— Howard Zinn

“On the first day of the meeting that would become known as the United States Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph of Virginia kicked off the…

— William Hogeland

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the…

— Daniel Webster

But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights…

— Alexander Hamilton

“and the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on…

— Victor Hugo