 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 11114 Seiten
...forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me, sir,... | |
 | David Excelmons Cloyd - 1902 - 104 Seiten
...forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me, Sir,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903
...forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me, sir,... | |
 | United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - 1905
...Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether...better Constitution: For when you assemble a number you of Men, to have the Advantage of their joint Wisdom inevitably assemble with those Men all their... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1904
...forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir,... | |
 | Charles Felton Pidgin - 1904 - 348 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... | |
 | 1904
...to a second Convention and not inclined to expect a " perfect production" from any set of men with "their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. ... It therefore astonishes me, sir," he continued, "to find this system approaching so near... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - 1904 - 504 Seiten
...to a second Convention and not inclined to expect a " perfect production" from any set of men with "their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. ... It therefore astonishes me, sir," he continued, "to find this system approaching so near... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1981 - 1146 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,... | |
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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... 
