 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 2003 - 808 sidor
...second part, if the first should be agreed to. 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... | |
 | Christopher Collier - 2003 - 248 sidor
...hovering over their deliberations every minute of every day. Gouverneur Morris had to plead with them to "extend their views beyond the present moment of...place from which they derive their political origin."' True, there were a few high nationalists like the doctrinaire Madison, who urged his colleagues to... | |
 | William Howard Adams - 2008 - 361 sidor
...be affected by the outcome of the proceedings. Above all, he wished that the delegates would somehow "extend their views beyond the present moment of time;...place from which they derive their political origin." If the House was to be popular and transient, Morris insisted that the second house had to be entirely... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 sidor
...second part, if the first should be agreed to. He conceived the whole aspect ot it to be wrong. He came here as a representative of America; he flattered...place from which they derive their political origin. If we were to believe some things which he had heard, he should suppose that we were assembled to truck... | |
 | A. A. Sorensen - 2005 - 404 sidor
...humanity; for everyone on this planet will be affected by the proceedings of this convention. "Extend your views beyond the present moment of time, beyond the narrow limits of place. Much has been said of the sentiments of the people, but they are unknown — they cannot be known.... | |
 | Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 sidor
...that they "were now to decide for ever the fate of Republican Government"; Gouverneur Morris claimed "the whole human race will be affected by the proceedings of this Convention." James Wilson, after the Convention, made, if possible, a still bolder claim: After the lapse of six... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 sidor
...agree to the 2d part if the 1st shd. be agreed to. He conceived the whole aspect of it to be wrong. He from the world, yet the business of a king requires...destroying each other, prove the whole character to be absu If he were to believe some things which he had heard, he should suppose that we were assembled to truck... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1892 - 236 sidor
...conspicuous part, he declared : — "I come here as a representative of America. I flatter myself that I come here in some degree as a representative of the whole...be affected by the proceedings of this convention. I wish gentlemen to extend their views beyond the present moment of time, — beyond the narrow limits... | |
 | 623 sidor
...Representative of America; he flattered 15 Ibid., Volume I, p. 535. 16 Ibid., Volume I, p. 527. himself as he came here in some degree as a Representative of...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. 
