Albert Beveridge: “Even majorities have no right to do as they please; if so, what security has the individual citizen?”

Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.

In argument and reasoning he was the equal if not the superior of Madison himself; and his grim personality made the meek one of Madison seem tender in comparison.

Washington was the soul of the American cause.

So overwhelming was the popular feeling against a strong National Government that, if the Anti-Constitutionalists had concentrated their attack upon this secret purpose of the leading Constitutionalists to make it such by easy stages, it…