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To: Dead Corpse
Improve it? He was dead against it without it.

Were that the case, he would have publicly criticized the Virginia convention for ratifying the unamended Constitution in July 1788.

What was his response to the ratification? He wrote a private letter, which your source quoted, to James Madison saying: "I hope, therefore, a bill of rights will be formed to guard the people against the federal government" and he did not write a public "I am dead against this Constitution!" remonstrance.

He "hoped" that the amendments would be made. That's not a particularly aggressive stance, but it is a wisely considered one.

74 posted on 07/30/2008 10:41:30 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake
http://www.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl66.htm

Since you don't like me doing the copy/paste thing... Copy the above link and read his letter to Madison from 1787. It wasn't just the failure to include a BoR, but lifetime Presidency and other matters as well.

Several of his letters after this contain further disapprobation.

Hardly supportive as you've suggested.

75 posted on 07/30/2008 10:52:30 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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