Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction . . . that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them. β¨ James Madison, E. H. Scott (1898). Journal of the Federal Convention, p.51, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
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