...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity ol 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...

...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from rhy intimate opportunity ol observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...than were the members of the Federal Convention of 1/87 to the object of devising and proposing a constitutional system which should best supply the defects...

...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...

...effective one. The Convention met in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787. Of its members, James Madison said: "there never was an assembly of men charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure C Ja IWi'r •*** r^^~^*~ &• 4, ^2; Warrant to arrest Timothy Talmadtfe for murder, issued by Hon....

...your Doings therein unto me the faid &sC*f**' *favrv*<*s^- Efa within Sixtj Days next eomingj AnM / in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them" On Wednesday, May 30, 1787, "Roger Sherman from Connecticut took his seat" Some of his views in the...

...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...

...patriotic purpose. There was no self-seeking nor favoring of any particular class. Madison records that: "There never was an assembly of men charged...trust, who were more pure in their motives or more anxiously devoted to the objects submitted to them." 18. The Work of the Convention. — The convention...

...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...anxiously devoted to the object committed to them." — Madison. ONE problem remained for solution. After some vacillation, and with great hesitation,...

...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...anxiously devoted to the object committed to them. ROBERT MORRIS This paper has been the subject of infinite investigation, disputation, and declamation....

...Madison left the convention with the conviction "that there never was an assembly of men, charged with great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their...motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the high 394 object committed to them." Pure disinterestedness is rarer than radium. Each brought to the...