 | Charles Lanman - 1872 - 386 trang
...looked at the strong sides of the republic. Now we shall investigate some of the causes of its weakness. "When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage...their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men^all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and selfish... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1873 - 266 trang
...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,...constitution. For when you assemble a number of men, to have tne advantage of their joint wisdom, you assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passion?,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 556 trang
...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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 796 trang
...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,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 214 trang
...In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such. ... I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution. . . . The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1877 - 982 trang
...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,... | |
 | 1877 - 972 trang
...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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1884 - 558 trang
...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,... | |
 | 1886 - 190 trang
...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,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 trang
...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 vices. From such an assembly, can a perfect production be expected ? It, therefore, astonishes me,... | |
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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. 
