 | Charles Felton Pidgin - 1904 - 358 Seiten
...otherwise. In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such. I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1981 - 1224 Seiten
...ponder what Benjamin Franklin said at the end of the debates over the federal Constitution: "[WJhen you assemble a number of men to have the advantage...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an Assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir,... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - 1987 - 1168 Seiten
...the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain,...Opinion, their local Interests, and their selfish Views. From such an Assembly can a perfect Production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir,... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - 1990 - 478 Seiten
...in The Federalist No. 37 parallels Benjamin Franklin's closing speech to the Federal Convention: I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir,... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 Seiten
...the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain,...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir,... | |
 | Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - 1995 - 276 Seiten
...months, and tempers were frayed. Franklin, in a speech read for him by Wilson, appealed for unity: when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage...all their prejudices, their passions, . . . their local interests. . . . From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 Seiten
...the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain,...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir,... | |
 | A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. - 1998 - 353 Seiten
...prior to its adoption, a statement of Dr. Benjamin Franklin was presented to the weary assembly: I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an Assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain,...Opinion, their local Interests, and their selfish Views. From such an Assembly can a perfect Production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir,... | |
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Constitution, for when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. 
