Too much emphasis cannot be put upon the fact that the mercantile and financial interests were the weightiest of all the influences for the Constitution; the debtors and agricultural interests the strongest groups against it.
Beveridge emphasizes the significant influence of mercantile and financial interests in the push for the Constitution.
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He has raised the American people in their own esteem, and, if the influence of truth and justice, reason and argument is not lost in Europe, he has raised the consideration of the United States in that quarter of the world....
The passions of men stimulate them to avail themselves of the weakness of others.
History, reason, evidence, march through these pages like infantry, cavalry, and artillery going to battle.
When he promotes his own, he promotes that of the community.
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