The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoi…

James Madison
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The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as well as of our own; and to provide a convenient mode of rectifying their own errors, as future experience may unfold them. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, p.162
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