 | Joseph Alden - United States - 1886 - 332 pages
...better information or by fnller consideration, to change opinions even on iraportsut subjects." "I doubt whether any other convention we can obtain may be...constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to hare the advantage of their joint wisdom, yon inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices,... | |
 | William A. Campbell - Readers - 1890 - 514 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Fiske - United States - 1890 - 412 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Fiske - Political Science - 1891 - 412 pages
...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,... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1891 - 220 pages
...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 to find... | |
 | Patriotism - 1892 - 436 pages
...corrupted as to need despotic 190 AMERICAN PATRIOTISM. 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,... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1893 - 432 pages
...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...of 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. 
