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1652. CONSTITUTION (The Federal), Amendments to.—

We must be contented to accept of its good, and to cure what is evil in
it hereafter. It seems necessary for our happiness
at home; I am sure it is so for our respectability
abroad.—
To John Brown. Washington ed. ii, 397. Ford ed., v, 19.
(P. May. 1788)