...justified Madison's statement, "derived," as he wrote, "from an intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the convention, collectively...motives or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the task committed to them, than were the members of the Federal Convention of 1787." The strongest illustration...

...express my profound and -solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity for observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...were more pure in their motives or more exclusively and anxiously devoted to the object committed to them than were the members of the Federal Convention...

...Henry Lee, who had opposed the convention and therefore declined to serve as delegates. Madison wrote 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. ' ' The most celebrated Southern delegates were...

...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 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...