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It speaks well for the honour of the delegates that although their differences became so acute as to lead at times to bitter expressions, neither side divulged them to the outside public.
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Beck commends the delegates for maintaining confidentiality despite intense debates during the Constitutional Convention.
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I believe America's fate is only deferred by physical causes.
For having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
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