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1724. CONSTITUTIONS (American), Amending.—

Happily for us, that when we
find our constitutions defective and insufficient
to secure the happiness of our people,
we can assemble with all the coolness of philosophers,
and set them to rights, while every
other nation on earth must have recourse to
arms to amend or to restore their constitutions.—
To C. W. F. Dumas. Washington ed. ii, 264.
(P. Sep. 1787)