...solemn conviction, derived from intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of this convention, collectively and individually, that there...anxiously devoted to the object committed to them." Subsequent years and subsequent students have ratified this judgment. Nor was their ability behind...

...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...

...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...

...express ray profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunities of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...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...

...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...an assembly of men charged with a great and arduous task who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed...

...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...an assembly of men charged with a great and arduous task who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed...

...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...members of the Federal Convention of 1787, to the 412 THE WRITINGS OF JAMES MADISON. [1835] object of devising and proposing a constitutional system...

...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...members of the Federal Convention of 1787, to the 412 THE WRITINGS OF JAMES MADISON. [1835] object of devising and proposing a constitutional system...

...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...

...members. Tribute to Members. — James Madison, in the journal of the convention as kept by him, says, ' ' There never was an assembly of men, charged with a...object committed to them, than were the members of the constitutional convention of 1787, to the object of devising and proposing a constitutional system,...