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...passionately for support of efforts to overthrow Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista junta. He was even permitted to deliver his patented fund-raising pitch, minus the projection of 57 slides that usually accompany the spiel. Holding a photograph of a makeshift contra grave, North, his voice choking, told the legislators, "Gentlemen, we've got to offer them something more than the chance to die for their own country and the freedoms that we believe...
That was one reason why the group decided at the start to confer in total secrecy, with the windows of the Pennsylvania statehouse shut tight and sentries stationed at the doors. When one delegate carelessly dropped a copy of a convention document, Washington began scolding, "I must entreat the gentlemen to be more careful, lest our transactions get into the newspapers and disturb the public repose...
...more troops in the field than even the state of Virginia . . . We feel the effects of it even to this day." Pennsylvania's Wilson fretfully asked why the small states persisted in their suspicions of the large ones. Gunning Bedford of Delaware provided a sharp answer: "I do not, gentlemen, trust...
Deeds as well as words have made the Constitution -- sometimes deeds that were considered illegal. As Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe remarks, "The framing of the Constitution has been a continuous process rather than a purely episodic one. I think the real framers were not only the gentlemen who met in Philadelphia and those who drafted and ratified the crucial amendments, such as the amendments following the Civil War, but also the many people who often in the roles of dissent and rebellion, sat in, or marched and sang, or sometimes gave their lives, in order to translate their vision...
Then in 1867 somebody discovered a diamond near the Orange River. "Gentlemen," said the British Colonial Secretary as he inspected one of the earliest of these discoveries, "this is the rock on which the future success of South Africa will be built." Indeed, a quarter of a billion carats were to be dug out in the next century. Since the diamonds lay in Afrikaner lands, the British simply declared that they were annexing those lands, and British miners came pouring in. Two decades later rich deposits of gold were discovered in the Transvaal. Still more Britons and other foreigners came...