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" I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better 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,... "
Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Memoirs of His Early Life - Page 248
by Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 274 pages
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The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional ...

James Madison - Constitutional history - 1787 - 578 pages
...Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other....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...
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A Library of Universal Literature: In 4 Parts, Comprising Science ..., Volume 6

Literature - 1900 - 460 pages
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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...
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Liberty Documents: With Contemporary Exposition and Critical Comments Drawn ...

Albert Bushnell Hart - Constitutional history - 1901 - 496 pages
...the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. 1 doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain...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...
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The Constitutional History of the United States, Volume 1

Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 634 pages
...despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. * * * Thus I consent to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that...
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

FRANCIS NEWTON THORPE - 1901 - 646 pages
...despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. * * * Thus I consent to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that...
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Civil government in the United States

John Fiske - 1902 - 494 pages
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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...
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Benjamin Franklin and Education: His Ideal of Life and His System of ...

David Excelmons Cloyd - Biography & Autobiography - 1902 - 126 pages
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 5

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 450 pages
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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...
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American orators

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 458 pages
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....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...
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Bulletin of the Bureau of Rolls and Library of the ..., Volume 11, Part 1

United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - Archives - 1905 - 854 pages
...Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other....better Constitution: For when you assemble a number you of Men, to have the Advantage of their joint Wisdom inevitably assemble with those Men all their...
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