...convention we can obtain may be able to make a better constitution. I consent to this constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best." Still a note of anxiety is apparent in the letter of the convention (signed by Washington as its president)...

...approve, but I am not sure that I shall never approve them. I, therefore, sir, agree to this Constitution because I expect no better and because I am not sure that it is not the best. And I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may WASHINGTON FRANKLIN...

...approve, but I am not sure that I shall never approve them. I, therefore, sir, agree to this Constitution because I expect no better and because I am not sure that it is not the best. And I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may WASHINGTON FRANKLIN...

...approve, but I am not sure that I shall never approve them. I, therefore, sir, agree to this Constitution because I expect no better and because I am not sure that it is not the best. And I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may ON HINGTON ON Washington...

...hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better and because I am not sure that it is not the best. » » * On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the convention who...

...astonished with what the Convention had accomplished and that: "I consent, sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions 1 have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them...

...SYSTEM APPROACHING SO NEAR TO PERFECTION AS IT DOES; ... THUS I CONSENT, SIR, TO THIS CONSTITUTION BECAUSE I EXPECT NO BETTER, AND BECAUSE I AM NOT SURE THAT IT IS NOT THE BEST. THE DELEGATES NEED NOT HAVE WORRIED OVER THEIR FINAL PRODUCT. TIME HAS PROVEN THAT BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND...

...consent, Sir," said Benjamin Franklin in his speech to the convention of 1787, "to this constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best." The federal government was created to unify the states, to regulate interstate commerce, and to represent...

...consent, sir," said Benjamin Franklin in his speech to the Convention of 1787, "to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best." whole. The wording in the Constitution concerning the powers of the Federal Government seems to be...

..."for a course of years." (MN at 739) As Franklin put the matter, "I consent. . .to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best." (MN at 740) In the Federalist, the authors did not indulge in extensive speculations about economic...