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The problem was to find a method, if union was to subsist at all, for overcoming the difficulty, to find therefore some arrangement, some scheme or plan of organization wherein there would be reasonable assurance that the states would fulfill their obligations and play their part under established articles of union and not make mockery of union by willful disregard or negligent delay.
— Dec 19, 2025 11:01AM
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Greg
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The framing of the first constitutions with bills of rights ranks among America’s foremost achievements, the more remarkable because both unprecedented and realized during wartime. Nevertheless, the phrasing of various rights and the inclusion and omission of particular ones in any given state constitution seem careless.
— Dec 24, 2025 11:00AM
Greg
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...the Constitution was neither a victory for abstract theory nor a great practical success. Well over half a million men had to die on the battlefields of the Civil War before certain constitutional principles could be defined—a baleful consideration which is somehow overlooked in our customary tributes to the farsighted genius of the Framers and to the supposed American talent for ‘constitutionalism.’
— Dec 23, 2025 08:18AM
Greg
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Rufus King’s motion that there be ‘a prohibition on the States to interfere in private contracts’ immediately evoked a barrage or criticism. After some discussion the Convention approved a substitute motion, made by Rutledge, from which King’s proposal was deliberately omitted and which provided instead only that ex post facto laws and bills of attainder be prohibited.
— Dec 21, 2025 06:31PM
