Word: conventioners
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Although they were not supposed to change the substance of what the convention had so far decided, it was hardly accidental that all five were strong-government advocates, and that one of them was Madison. The actual writer was Gouverneur Morris, a one-legged but rather rakish Philadelphian who boasted...
THE BICENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY done in Convention . . . the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth ARTICLE VII FOOD Filling Up in Philadelphia The cradle of liberty nourished culinary tradition...
Woodrow Wilson said they were a Constitutional Convention in continuous session, and Charles Evans Hughes observed with only a twist of irony that the Constitution is what they say it is. Each working day -- from the first Monday of October until the end of June or early July -- the Justices...
The reasoning is businesslike, lawyerly, as much to the point as the Justices can manage. But frequently an issue will incense or a principle inspire. Their words, which are their deeds, are part of what Americans live by. These selections are from the members of the current sitting Constitutional Convention...
THE BICENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY done in Convention . . . the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth ARTICLE VII LIVING What If TV Had Been There? Imagining how the framers might...