 | A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. - 1998 - 353 Seiten
...day, 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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other....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... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 Seiten
...it, when the people shall hecome so corrupted as to need despotic government, heing incapable of my other. I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may he able to make a hetter Constitution; for, when you assemble a numher of men, to have the advantage... | |
 | Thomas G. Chenoweth, Robert B. Everhart - 2002 - 296 Seiten
...to change opinions even on important subjects which I once though right, but found to be otherwise. ...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... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 2003 - 808 Seiten
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 Seiten
...despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2003 - 607 Seiten
...with all its faults — if they are such — because I think a general government necessary for us ... I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can...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... | |
 | Rebecca Stefoff - 2005 - 146 Seiten
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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... | |
 | Hilaire Dubourcq - 2004 - 208 Seiten
...Despotism, as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupt'd as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other....assemble a Number of Men, to have the Advantage of their own Wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those Men all their Prejudices, their Passions, their Errors... | |
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I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better 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,... 
