 | United States. Congress - 1938 - 756 sidor
...facts: The Constitution of the United States was written in 1787. When signed. Gouverneur Morris said: "The whole human race will be affected by the proceedings of this convention." Never was prophecy better justified by time. For down to 1917, when Russians established the "dictatorship... | |
 | South Carolina Bar Association - 1921 - 306 sidor
...that "th£y were now to decide forever the fate of Republican government;" and Gouverneur Morris said, "The whole human race will be affected by the proceedings of this convention." Governor Randolph of Virginia; a second plan was presented by Charles Pinckney of South Carolina, and... | |
 | Roger H. Brown - 1971 - 260 sidor
...stake." Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania spoke for many when he declared before the assembly: "He came here as a Representative of America; he flattered...be affected by the proceedings of this Convention." Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts agreed that something must be done "or we shall disappoint not only... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 sidor
...as the matter of the Report objectionable. . . . He conceived the whole aspect of it to be wrong. He came here as a Representative of America; he flattered...place from which they derive their political origin. If he were to believe some things which he had heard, he should suppose that we were assembled to truck... | |
 | William Lee Miller - 1993 - 316 sidor
...forever." One of the most sweeping statements was that of Gouveneur Morris. He said on July 5 that "the whole human race will be affected by the proceedings...place from which they derive their political origin." These statements by framers echoed that of John Adams more than a decade earlier, about the unique... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 sidor
...his colleagues "extend their views." Each delegate, "a Representative of America," must also think as "a Representative of the whole human race; for...be affected by the proceedings of this Convention." In these and other exhortations, the framers define a special purpose. They engage in what Herman Melville... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1995 - 730 sidor
...voice to both the hopes and fears of the delegates. "He came here," Madison recounts Morris as saying, "as a Representative of America; he flattered himself...be affected by the proceedings of this Convention." We may, in our time, doubt whether Morris and his colleagues could represent the whole human race;... | |
 | Steven D. Smith - 1998 - 220 sidor
...and even the world," and he eloquently proclaimed his own ability to do just that. He came here as Representative of America; he flattered himself he...place from which they derive their political origin. If he were to believe some things which he had heard, he should suppose that we were assembled to truck... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 1999 - 836 sidor
...the 2? part if' the 1Д* ahí be agreed to. Же conceived^ the whole aspect of -it to be wrong. He came here as a Representative of America; he flattered...place from which they derive their political origin. If he were to believe some things which he had heard, he should suppose that we were assembled to truck... | |
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He came here as a Representative of America ; he flattered himself he came here in some degree as a Representative of the whole human race ; for the whole human race will be affected by the proceedings of this Convention. 
