...existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in convention, to be less rigid on points of inferior...which we now present is the result of a spirit of * Adams' Defence of the constituí ion of the United States, p. 263. London: 1786. t Grimshaw's History...

...our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed .on our minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid...of our political situation rendered indispensable. expected ; but each will doubtless consider, that, had her interest alone been consulted, the consequences...

...our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, tluui might have been otherwise expected; and thus the constitution, which we now present, is the result...

...Convention ; and in their letter transmitting it to Congress, they declared the Constitution to be " the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual...deference and concession which the peculiarity of their political system rendered indispensable." The course pointed out by the Convention was pursued...

...our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the convention to be less rigid...now present is the result of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession, which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable....

...should be deeply impressed on the hearts and memories of present and future statesmen and legislators : "The Constitution which we now present, is the result...of our political situation rendered indispensable." WASHINGTON'S opinion expressed on another occasion, as we learn from Sparks' Life, p. 403 ; — was,...

...our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the convention to be less rigid...magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected." This, sir, is General Washington's consolidation. This is the true constitutional consolidation. I...

...our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed upon our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid...the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual de~ ference and concession, which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable....

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...our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the convention to be less rigid...meet the full and entire approbation of every State, a not, perhaps, to be expected ; but each will doubtless consider that, had her interest been alone...