 I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively and individually, that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great...  The United States Democratic Review - Page 2491839Full view - About this book
 | 1845 - 778 pages
...express his " profound and solemn conviction, derived from an intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively devoted to the object of devising and proposing a constitutional system which should best secure the... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 630 pages
...proceedings may be a test ; as the character of tlte work which was the offspring of their deliberations must be tested by the experience of the future, added...which would best supply the defects of that which it was to replace, and best secure the permanent liberty and happiness of their country." That resolution... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - United States - 1840 - 700 pages
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure m their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them, than were... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...devising and proposing a constitutional system, which should best supply the delects of that which it was to replace, and best secure the permanent liberty... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1845 - 672 pages
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...devising and proposing a constitutional system which should best supply the defects of that which it was to replace, and best secure the permanent liberty... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 680 pages
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...devising and proposing a constitutional system which should best supply the defects of that which it was to replace, and best secure the permanent liberty... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunities of observing and appreciating the views of the convention, collectively...trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more anxiously devoted to the object committed to them, than were the members of the Federal Convention... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1870 - 694 pages
...assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more anxiously devoted to the object committed to them,...devising and proposing a constitutional system which should best supply the defects of that it was to replace, and best secure the permanent liberty and... | |
 | William Thompson Read - Delaware - 1870 - 590 pages
...charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively and anxiously devoted to the object committed to them,...than were the members of the Federal Convention of 1787."—Ibid., vol. ii. p. 719. The Constitution was signed by thirty-five of the fifty-five members... | |
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