...that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of oar Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity,...and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in we convention to be less rigid, on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected."...

...constitution was reported by Johnson, on the twelfth of September, with a letter to congress stating it to be the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual...deference and concession which the peculiarity of their political situation rendered indispensable. Several amendments having been made to the plan,...

...constitution was reported by Johnson, on the twelfth of September, with a letter to congress stating it to be the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual...deference and concession which the peculiarity of their political situation rendered indispensable. Several amendments having been made to the plan,...

...constitution was reported by Johnson, on the twelfth of September, with a letter to congress stating it to be the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual...deference and concession which the peculiarity of their political situation rendered indispensable. Several amendments having been made to the plan,...

...view that which appeared to ns the greatest interest of every true American, — the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity,...led each State in the Convention to be less rigid in points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected. And thus the Constitution...

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...safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed upon our minds, led each State in the convention to be...less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might otherwise have been expected." (Works, Ed. 1851, vol. iii, p. 258.) These two brief arguments, one...