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Subject Area: Political Theory
Subject Area: History
Topic: The American Revolution and Constitution

CLIV.: The Landholder [ Oliver Ellsworth ], VII. 1 - Max Farrand, The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, vol. 3 [1911]

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The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911). Vol. 3.

Part of: The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 3 vols.

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CLIV.

The Landholder [Oliver Ellsworth], VII.1

I have often admired the spirit of candour, liberality, and justice, with which the Convention began and completed the important object of their mission. . . .

[1 ]P. L. Ford, Essays on the Constitution, 167; first printed in the Connecticut Courant, December 17, 1787.