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824. BILL OF RIGHTS, Security in.—[continued].

I am one of those who
think it a defect [in the new Constitution],
that the important rights, not placed in security
by the frame of the Constitution itself,
were not explicitly secured by a supplementary
declaration [of rights].—
To David Humphreys. Washington ed. iii, 12. Ford ed., v, 89.
(P. March. 1789)