...figure drawn up to its full height, he exclaimed in tones unwontedly solemn with suppressed emotion, ' It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we ofifer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work P Let us raise a standard...

...deference to the minority."1 Washington is reported to have said before the work of the Convention began: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise the standard to which the wise and the honest can repair;...

...CONSTITUTION, 1787. It is too probable that no plan we suggest will be adopted. Perhaps another Ireadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we jurselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise...

...state considerations. Conflicting interests also produced trouble and long debates. Washington said : " If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? " Dr. Hinsdale describes how the Constitution went into operation: after which he takes it up, article...

...state considerations. Conflicting interests also produced trouble and long debates. Washington said : " If to please the people we offer what we ourselves...disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?" Dr. Hinsdaie describes how the Constitution went into operation; after which he takes it up, article...

...state considerations. Conflicting interests also produced trouble and long debates. Washington said : "If to please the people we offer what we ourselves...disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?" Dr. Hinsdale describes how the Constitution went into operation ; after which he takes it up, article...

...drawn up to its full height, he exclaimed iu tone* unwontedly solemn, with suppressed emotion — ' It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. If to pleiise the people we offur what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work...

...the suggestion that the popular will, whether right or wrong in itself, must be obeyed, he said, " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hand of God."...

...organize, when success seemed hopeless and despair suggested fatal compromise, Washington said : " If to please the people we offer what we ourselves...disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God."...

...of them, his countenance more than usually solemn, his eye seeming to look into futurity, said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the...