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

CCLXXXIX.: Gouverneur Morris in the United States Senate. 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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CCLXXXIX.

Gouverneur Morris in the United States Senate.1

There are some honorable gentlemen now present, who sat in the Convention which formed this Constitution. I appeal to their recollection, if they have not seen the time when the fate of America was suspended by a hair? my life for it, if another convention be assembled, they will part without doing anything. Never, in the flow of time, was there a moment so propitious, as that in which the Convention assembled. The States had been convinced, by melancholy experience, how inadequate they were to the management of our national concerns. The passions of the people were lulled to sleep; State pride slumbered; the Constitution was promulgated; and then it awoke, and opposition was formed; but it was in vain. The people of America bound the States down by this compact.

[1 ]Annals of Congress, Seventh Congress, First Session, I, 40.