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1709. CONSTITUTION (The Federal), Wisdom of.—

The Constitution * * * is
unquestionably the wisest ever yet presented
to men, and some of the accommodations of
interest which it has adopted are greatly
pleasing to me, who have had occasions of
seeing how difficult those interests were to accommodate.—
To David Humphreys. Washington ed. iii, 12. Ford ed., v, 80.
(P. March. 1789)