His refusal to sign it because of changes which he thought necessary, and his conversion to the extreme Constitutionalist position, which he now, for the first time, was fully to disclose, made him the strongest single asset the Constitutionalists had acquired.
Beveridge notes the significance of an individual's refusal to sign a document and its impact on political dynamics.
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