It is evident that if the framers of the Constitution had met, as similar conventions have within recent years met at Versailles and Genoa, with the world as their gallery and with the representatives of the Press as an integral part of the conference, they would have accomplished nothing.
Beck argues that the framers of the Constitution would have failed if they had sought to appease public opinion.
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