| James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 708 páginas
...the proposed election should be left to the people at large 1 He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for Chief Magistrate to the people, as it would, to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible, that the... | |
| James Williams (American diplomat.) - 1863 - 448 páginas
...Mr. Pinckney's prophetic warning.] Col. Mason, of Virginia, conceived that it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for chief magistrate to the people as it would to refer a trial of colours to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible that the... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 680 páginas
...the proposed election should be left to the people at large ? He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for chief magistrate to the people, as it would to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible that the... | |
| William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 páginas
...opposing the proposition used this remarkable language : — " He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for chief magistrate to the people, as it would to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible that the... | |
| Charles Ingersoll - 1875 - 310 páginas
...have the best chance for the appoint" ment." " Mr. Mason said, he conceived it would " be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper " character for Chief Magistrate to the people, as " it would to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. " The extent of the country renders it impossible " that... | |
| John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 580 páginas
...democratic members of the Convention, took occasion to say that " he considered it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for chief magistrate to the people as it would to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible that the... | |
| Kate Mason Rowland - 1892 - 550 páginas
...the proposed election should be left to the people at large ? He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for Chief Magistrate to the people, as it would, to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible, that the... | |
| Erastus Howard Scott - 1893 - 412 páginas
...the proposed election should be left to the people at large? He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for Chief Magistrate to the people, as it would, to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible, that the... | |
| United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 1893 - 402 páginas
...the proposed election should be left to the people at large? He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for Chief Magistrate to the people, as it would, to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible, that the... | |
| 1897 - 976 páginas
...the proposed election should be left to the people at large. He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for chief...to the people, as it would, be to refer a trial of colours to a blind man. The extent of the Country renders it impossible that the people can have the... | |
| |