1678. CONSTITUTION (The Federal), Disapproval of.—[further continued].
I was much pleased with
many and essential parts of this instrument
from the beginning. But I thought I saw in
it many faults, great and small. What I
have read and reflected has brought me over
from several of my objections of the first
moment, and to acquiesce under some others.
Two only remain of essential consideration,
to wit, the want of a bill of rights, and the
expunging the principle of necessary rotation
in the offices of President and Senator.—
To William Carmichael. Washington ed. ii, 398.
Ford ed., v, 25.
(P.
May. 1788)
