 I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively and individually, that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great...  The United States Democratic Review - Seite 2491839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 Seiten
...the convention, making painstaking notes of its struggles and conflicts, said that "there was never an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous...than were the members of the Federal Convention of 1787."48 Like Adams and Jefferson, Madison seemed well aware that originating events like the Declaration... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 2003 - 808 Seiten
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...devising and proposing a constitutional system which should best supply the defects of that which it was to replace, and best secure the permanent liberty... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 Seiten
...concluded his preface in these words: "I feel it a duty to express my profound & solemn conviction . . . that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great & arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the... | |
 | Stanley Kimmel Kesselman - 2006 - 219 Seiten
...prosperity could thrive. Madison later said of his fellow delegates: individually and collectively .. . there never was an assembly of men, charged with a...trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusive or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them. The stakes in the constitutional debate... | |
 | Cameron C. Taylor - 2007 - 322 Seiten
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...object committed to them, than were the members of the [Constitutional] Convention of 1787, to the devising and proposing a constitutional system . . . [to]... | |
 | Michigan Historical Commission, Michigan State Historical Society - 1888 - 708 Seiten
...the architects of the constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, there never was an assembly of men charged with a...devising and proposing a constitutional system which' should best supply the defects of that which it was to replace, and best secure the permanent liberty... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 532 Seiten
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...a great and arduous trust, who were more pure . in tJteir motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them, than were... | |
 | 1921 - 618 Seiten
...conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the convention, that there never was an assembly of men, charged with...trust who were more pure in their motives or more anxiously devoted to the object committed to them than were the members of the Federal Convention of... | |
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