Essays on the Constitution of the United States
Essays on the Constitution of the United States
Published During its Discussion by the People, 1787-1788
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their endeavours fruitless, to sully The Character of the Brightest Luminary that ever Adorned the Hemisphere of Massachusetts,(6) and many other illustrious patriots, who compose the present administration, they will retire to gnash their teeth in anguish and disappointment, in the caverns of obscurity--a punishment their conduct most justly merits.
CASSIUS.
Cassius, III.
The Massachusetts Gazette, (Number 383)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1787.
For the Massachusetts Gazette.
It was the saying of an eminent legislator, that if we had angels to govern us, we should quarrel with them. The conduct of some among us has repeatedly evinced, beyond a doubt, that this would actually be the case; we have proof of this in a more particular manner in the opposition now made by some (but I sincerely hope the number is few) to the form of government agreed upon by the late federal Convention. I firmly believe, if a form of government was proposed to some of the inhabitants of the U
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